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Rikk Flohr-Retired
Adobe Employee
August 22, 2024
Question

P: (Early Access) Content Authenticity Initiative (CAI) for (CR & LrClassic)

This thread is for Camera Raw & Lightroom Classic feedback on the (Early Access) Content Authenticity Initiative (CAI)
For the Lightroom Ecosystem feedback, click here. 

The Lightroom team is dedicated to building capabilities that foster trust and transparency in the age of AI. Our latest release, as part of the Content Authenticity Initiative (https://contentauthenticity.org/), allows you to add content credentials to your work when exporting in Lightroom to ensure provenance and preserve authenticity.

 

New content credential capabilities are available across the Lightroom ecosystem (Lightroom, Lightroom Classic, Lightroom for mobile (iOS & Android), Lightroom for web), and Adobe Camera Raw in Early Access. When exporting a JPEG from Lightroom, you can attach your name, social media handle, and a list of edits via a digital signature.

 

You can find the option to apply Content Credentials while exporting a JPEG in the export panel. It is, by default, turned OFF. You can choose to enable this option at the time of each export or enable it in App preferences for every export. Learn more.

 

If you choose to attach credentials, the information you submit will be tied to your image and can be verified by uploading the photo to contentcredentials.org/verify. Try out the early access version of Content Credentials and share your feedback with us.

 

Please include the following details in your post:

  • App version/platform
  • System details
  • Example image(s) if you wish to share

 

Thanks!


Komal Desai: Product Manager - Lightroom Ecosystem

 

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Participant
September 16, 2026

Hello! 
I’m having some issues with the content credentials application while exporting my photos.

I’m constantly getting the error “couldn’t apply content credentials” an fail the export of some o the selected photos that I chose to export.

The only solution is to export without content credentials, it doesn’t work with social media and also with just the name of the photographer…

What am I missing or what can I do or can you do to solve this?

Thank you for the support!

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Participant
September 16, 2026

Still having issues applying when exporting from LRC to a simple jpg file. 

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Known Participant
September 15, 2026

Sad that the feature does not work properly , and does not apply credential on photos edited inl ightroom correctly . pretty annoying fro cosplay photos  and animal photography , no reason , no explanation , just fail . pretty annoying and disapointing 

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jcr00
Participant
September 13, 2026

Starting today, all exports with content credentials are failing for me. If I go to the export preset manually, hit “Refresh” on the Content Credentials panel, then export, it will work. I save the settings to the export preset, try again, and it works exactly one time. This is true of ALL export presets that include Content Credentials. Lightroom Classic 15.5.1, MacOS 26.6.2 (25G83)

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EnigmaJeff
Participating Frequently
September 12, 2026

This feature is terrible! Some, NOT ALL, of my exports refused to write Content Credentials. I didn't even realize it was a “new” feature. Multiple exports, multiple fails, re-export, re-fail. Multiple uploads to Zenfolio, count images … not enough. Start over. Repeat. Repeat. I HATE THIS NEW FEATURE and finally disabled it on this last export. 

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Zealous_fantasy5D53
Known Participant
September 10, 2026

Not even the basic attach to files works reliably. 100% production not ready. We are not paid beta testers FFS!

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Zealous_fantasy5D53
Known Participant
September 10, 2026

Exports keep failing again and again. No attempts to retry. Just failing. 

If LRC is started without connection, it fails 100% regardless of present status. But it also fails otherwise. Just SO CRAZY ANNONYING. This has got to be vibe coded. The whole recent LR and PS. 

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Participant
September 7, 2026

My exports fail every single time when I attach credentials. This is new. It did not used to do this.

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Participant
September 7, 2026

Content credentials fails my export every single time. Checked or unchecked, at least one image will not export. 

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Participant
September 2, 2026

C2PA is an important technology that allows us to verify the authenticity of our images. At first, it worked flawlessly, but now there are issues with exporting. Some images aren't exported due to problems with C2PA. If you try again, it might work—or it might not. However, with enough attempts, you can always export all the images. I think the problem has existed since the last (or maybe the one before last) update.

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Alex Krotkov
Participant
September 4, 2026

Opened this page to report the same issue - sad it’s happening but glad I’m not the only one! 
And every time it’s a different image. I’ve tried everything from relinking all the credentials to restarting/optimizing catalog etc - same issue persists. 

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Participant
September 5, 2026

I only export the pictures, that were not exported before. This way you will have exported all of them some time.

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