Go to Preferences > History & Content Credentials and select Content Credentials (Beta) to enable the feature.
Beta features are now available for development, testing, and feedback. For help, please visit the Adobe Photoshop beta community.
Content Credentials (Beta) is a developing feature in Adobe Photoshop that (when enabled) gathers the edits, activity, and attribution information associated with the in-progress content. When exported, these details are captured as tamper-evident attribution and history data (called content credentials) that creators attach to the final content.
This feature aligns with the upcoming C2PA standard to provide digital provenance across the internet. It creates an open format for sharing information about the producer’s identity and the ingredients and tools used to make the content. These ultimately provide useful attribution information for audiences once the producer shares or publishes the image.
Content Credentials (Beta) is part of a growing ecosystem of technologies available through the Content Authenticity Initiative (CAI). Adobe and our 700+ CAI members are dedicated to restoring trust online by creating a standard way to share visual content without losing key contextual details such as who made it, when, and how. Alongside the CAI, Adobe also co-founded a standards development organization, the Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity (C2PA), to develop an open, global standard for sharing this information across platforms and sites.
The April update of Photoshop will be the first major implementation of the newly released 1.0 specification of the C2PA standard. Content Credentials (Beta) will interoperate with other adopters’ products, including software, hardware devices, publishing systems, and media platforms.
This update impacts existing images using Content Credentials (Beta) in Photoshop:
To learn more about the Content Authenticity Initiative, check out contentauthenticity.org.
Content Credentials (Beta) is currently available in English, German, French, and Japanese.
The Content Credentials (Beta) feature in Photoshop is part of a broader project called the Content Authenticity Initiative (CAI). CAI is an Adobe-led community of creators, technologists, journalists, activists, and educators - focused on addressing digital misinformation through an open, extensible approach for capturing, editing, and publishing content with provenance and attribution.
The Content Credentials (Beta) feature is most useful for creators when they want to track attribution and provide a layer of transparency for their audience. The feature can be used by casual and professional artists alike to provide a layer of trust for some of the following purposes:
Behance supports Content Credentials (Beta) in the single image viewer, where creators can display the content credentials with their work. Viewers can also check the digital attribution history of creative work and explore that information in Verify.
You can learn more about asset vs. token provenance for NFTs and how to add your cryptocurrency address to Content Credentials (Beta).
Either use the Content Credentials (Beta) icon in the panels bar or go to Window > Content Credentials (Beta) and select Preview. You will see the following options:
Go to File > Export > Export As and select Attach to image to attach the Content Credentials (Beta) of your final PNG or JPG.
Choose a file on Verify to read an image’s content credentials, which includes its edits and activity, producer details, and signer.
Try Verify.
Behance is the leading online platform to showcase and discover creative work. Casual and professional artists can include content credentials along with their creative works on this platform.
Check out Behance.
Content Credentials (Beta) only supports exporting JPG and PNG files during this beta.
Content Credentials (Beta) is still in development, so the following features in Photoshop aren’t fully supported yet:
Issue |
Workaround |
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3rd Party Plugins and Scripts |
Receive a disclaimer on your Content Credentials noting that unsupported actions were used or complete any Content Credentials work without the use of 3rd Party Scripts. |
Multi-device and multi-user flows |
Complete any Content Credentials work on the same device and with the same user account. |
Images created with pre 1.0 C2PA compliant versions of Content Credentials |
Use images created with Content Credentials from May 2022 or more recently to continue the use of Content Credentials. Older images with Content Credentials will still work for viewing on a parallel version of Verify. |
Offline exports |
Connect to the internet before exporting |
Exporting layers and artboards |
Export as a document rather than layers or artboards |
Co-editing and collaboration |
Ensure the user who exports the image is the one whose name and other attribution information is intended to be sealed in the Content Credentials |
Extremely large files |
Additional performance improvements for working with large files are underway. If facing issues with PNGs, try to use them as JPEGs. If you receive the following message, it is likely that the file is too large. ![]()
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Mac users unable to open use Content Credentials for use after loading |
There will be a pop-up upon the first load of Photoshop that asks if cai-helper can access the documents folder. ![]()
If this was not allowed by you, then you will have to go through System Preferences > Security & Privacy > Privacy > Files and Folders > cai-helper and allow access to the folder by checking the items. ![]()
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Language support beyond English, German, French and Japanese |
Default to the English version if possible, and additional languages are coming soon! |
Education plan users not having access |
While in Beta, Education plan users are unable to access the feature. We are planning support as and when Content Credentials become available in general. |
Are your content credentials missing from published content?
Many digital applications and tools erase image metadata when the image is loaded or published, including information related to Content Credentials (Beta). If you find your image’s content credentials are missing after publishing online, it’s likely because that application doesn’t yet support Content Credentials (Beta).
To know more, visit Photoshop system requirements and known issues.
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