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

[Rikk Flohr: Photography]

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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[jmbothe]

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.

[Earthlight]

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).

[Dui 81]

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

[Dui 81]

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

[nycDeke]

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.

[Rod Villani]

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.

[Eric Jay Toll]

I consistently receive an error message when trying to export a PSD file that the credentials can't be saved. Then the export will not work at all.

[bryannag64376488]

Couldn't export a batch 3 different times and then I realized this option had been turned on automatically. The "attach to files" option was selected when it kept failing. I was so confused at first! Would be great if it works, I think this could be an asset to photographers. 

[rvunen]

Hi Rikk
I had it set up and working for the previous versions of Lightroom and with the latest version it suddenly does not work anymore and in a way that it is very disruptive to my workflow: it exports the file and before my eyes it deletes it again 😱 The Connected accounts fail, while I have Behance connected and whatever I do I don't get it working. Failed to fetch connected accounts and when I click manage I am connected and in the web pages. When I chose Attach to files, it goes wrong also. It simply doesn't work.

I disabled it.

Roger

[timbray]

When I'm exporting a photo, along with the LinkedIn/Instagram/etc options, the dialog has a section labeled "Web3" that allows the image to “be used for NFT creative attribution on supported marketplaces” where the supported marketplaces are Phantom and MetaMask."

It's 2025. That is over. 

[Albert Klee]

<👍🏻:shamrock:

[Hesadanza3]

There needs to be a way to change the "Producer" name other than the name on the Adobe account. I know that this is likely currently done to protect provenance to a verified identity, but then there needs to be more options to provide a verified identity. For example, my family shares an account, but there is no way to change the "Producer" to a particular family member's name. I can imagine other instances of users working under an employer's account, or using a shared school account, or acting on behalf of a creative agency, where this would also be needed.

[GD01]

Hi, CC worked in the previous versions of Lightroom, but since version 14.4 (202506051112-5918896a) it's no longer working : I can't export with CC anymore, if I check CC box while exporting, I get an error message "Some exports were not completed: unable to apply CCs" and all my files are not exported.

I loved CC features ! But for now, I have to uncheck it while exporting, otherwise it no longer works, whereas it worked before. Sad.

Windows 11 24h2, 12th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-12900K (3.19 GHz), 32,0 Go, 64bits

[dslide]

I'm using Camera Raw 17.4.2.2283 on MacOS Sequoia 15.5. I connected my Behance and Linked In accounts using (Manage) in the Save Options dialog, but the Connected Accounts check box under Content Credentials remains grayed out.

[Lutz_Sternstein2373]

Lightromm classic 14.5, Mac OS 15.3.1

I miss the option to prohibit the use of my asset for AI/ML training, while exporting from LR or PS in the content credential settings.
Will it come or will it only possible during the application process on https://contentauthenticity.adobe.com?
Thanks for your initiative!

[arjc]

Does not allow me to authenticate my identity.

I have two linked in profiles, one for my photography and one for another buisness.

I have already authentiated my identity on the business profile.

I cannot authenticate my identity on a second profile in Linkedin, as it will not allow two profiles to be authenticated with the same identity. This means I can't set up Content Authenticity, which is very unhelpful./

[Olivier248813789bgz]

Hi,

it is a very appreciated initiative ! Thanks !

Unfortunately, I have issues with it 😕
At first, it worked well. But recently i had a error message after the export and the export failed. (captures attached)
Is there any limitation about how many exports we can do with content credentials ?

Windows 11
LrC 14.5.1

[heidi_kearney]

My work wnats me to put our organization name by my name on the Content Credential - the problem is that there is no option to go in and edit it. Is there a work-around?

[KissMyKite]

This feature has been very buggy fro me from the onset.  It's stopped or slowed down workfloww. Too many times. I see the advantages to using the credentials but it's way to glitchy for the user. Sometimes it works.... sometimes it does not.  That's not acceptable for our workflow in our ad agency or for each editor off site.  

[Conway78]

It would be nice to be able to select/deselect the connected accounts you would like to include in your content credential in Lightroom Classic.  Currently, it's either all the connected accounts or none of them.