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Rikk Flohr_Photography
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August 22, 2024
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P: (Early Access) Content Authenticity Initiative (CAI) for (CR & LrClassic)

  • August 22, 2024
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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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Dui 81
Participant
April 12, 2025

It would be very useful to have a flag (or something similar) allowing the author to certify that the image was created without AI.

Participating Frequently
April 12, 2025
Some of the tools in Camera RAW optionally employ AI. They are very handy in editing RAW photos that were digitally generated (in camera). Those tools eliminate rather than generate.
On the other hand, if your suggestion is to flag images that are AI-generated and executed, that is a different ball of wax, and I could support that.
Participant
July 16, 2025
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Those tools eliminate rather than generate.

If you're eliminating and not leaving blank spots in the image, you're generating too.


I think the only instance of AI in Lightroom that's not "generating" anything are the selection tools. But that could be debated as well.

Dui 81
Participant
April 6, 2025

It would be very useful if there was the possibility to connect with the italian digital identity SPID.

Participant
February 15, 2025
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Participant
December 31, 2024

I think we need more options in what is embedded. I'd like the option to simply state that no generative AI was used and there was one source image (no thumbnail for the said ingredient).

Participant
December 29, 2024

If I uncheck add watermark and change the resize to 35%, it says "Couldn't apply Content Credentials.". But if I leave it at 50% resize with watermark added, it exports the image fine.

Participant
December 7, 2024

Unabke to export photos from Camera Raw with content credentials... Consequently cannot export with Copyright

Participant
December 4, 2024

I am unable to share too many details for business infosec reasons. I'm currently using Adobe Bridge 14.1.3 on Mac OS, and I'm using this version specifically in order to avoid the forced use of "CAI." I work in image production in the entertainment industry, and there is great and growing concern that this unwanted Adobe-proprietary format is being forced on us - and that is indicated by the Creative Cloud descriptions and various submenus of the newest versions of Adobe Bridge, Lightroom, Photoshop, and Camera RAW.

This "Content Credential" product is NOT a well-accepted nor industry-adopted standard or system for data management, nor is its use recognized as a best practice by any major corporate businesses in the photography industry, especially not in the realm of entertainment photography where I've worked for 20 years.

 

Disallowing the ability to erase faulty, mis-entered, or even personally-identifying editing and file metadata, even when it is "junk data" or traces left by users/vendors who aren't image owners, is a complete failure point conceptually for infosec as well as for the whole idea of using Adobe's "Content Credentials" for data management. The uploading of privately-owned and proprietary images to Adobe's "Cloud" service alongside these "Content Credentials" is another separate and unique security violation. These are just a couple of many systemic failure points of this format that make it especially unsuitable for the professional image production environment. Businesses that work in imagery have a direct, easily understood business need to erase and/or change metadata. That's been true of every single photo business and photographer I've worked for and worked with.


If Adobe takes further steps to force the adoption of this protocol that breaks actual established industry best practices for data management (the ability to erase personal private identifying information, and the ability to erase and wipe old/incorrect metadata) it will drive Adobe business customers to seek other options, and to forego further Adobe upgrades and product purchases. Simply put, these Adobe "credentials" must be kept entirely optional and they must remain dormant unless affirmatively requested. And Adobe needs to be much, much clearer that that is going to remain the case.

paul3.14159
Participating Frequently
November 21, 2024

What's the difference between this and simply adding metadata to my exports? 

Participant
November 13, 2024

There seems to be some sort of glitch where the content credentials are not always able to be added. It will work sometimes and then others it will say content credentials failed and then it wont save the file at all until I click the credentials tab off.

 

Participant
November 11, 2024

In the dialog description it says "seperate". "separate" would be more accurate.