Learn about Content Credentials

Learn more about Content Credentials, including what they are, how they work, and when you may want to include them with your work.

How to use Content Credentials (Beta) in Lightroom

Lightroom records edits and activities in a way that Content Credentials can reference at Export, in contrast to Photoshop, which requires turning on Content Credentials (Beta) for each document.

To start using Content Credentials in Lightroom, turn them on in Technology Previews. This will display Content Credentials (Beta) controls in the Export dialog, where you can adjust the information included in your Content Credentials and choose how to store them, as explained previously. 

Where do Content Credentials go when exporting or adding images to a shared album? 

When you’re ready to export your images from Lightroom or add them to a shared album and have turned on the Content Credentials (Beta) as  Technology Preview in Preferences, a Content Credentials (Beta) section will appear in the Export or Add to Shared Album dialog. There, you can choose which details you’d like to share and how to include Content Credentials with your content.

Content Credentials can be:

• Published to Content Credentials Cloud: This is separate from the cloud file storage included in your Adobe plan. This makes Content Credentials persistent and recoverable and keeps files smaller but less private — Content Credentials published to the cloud may appear in results when people search for content that matches or closely resembles your own.
• Attach to files: This makes the information in them more private but increases file sizes.
• Attach and publish to cloud: This lets you attach Content Credentials to the files directly and publish to the Content Credentials cloud, providing the most storage security for your Content Credentials.

You can also choose not to include Content Credentials with your Lightroom images. 

Will Content Credentials data be lost if you edit Lightroom photos in Photoshop? 

Currently, using the Edit in Photoshop option in Lightroom to edit images across Lightroom and Photoshop isn't supported by Content Credentials (Beta). To preserve the Content Credentials information of images you want to edit across both Lightroom and Photoshop, follow these steps:

1. Export the image from Lightroom with Content Credentials after making any desired changes
2. Open the image in Photoshop and enable Content Credentials (Beta) before making changes
3. Once desired changes have been made in Photoshop, Export As with Content Credentials
4. If you want to make further changes in Lightroom, you must import the file exported from Photoshop in the previous step back into Lightroom to preserve its Content Credentials information.

You can turn Content Credentials (Beta) on or off for an individual Photoshop document by right-clicking or option-clicking its tab. If Content Credentials (Beta) is turned off or encounters issues during editing, your image's Content Credentials will note that some edits and activity may not have been recorded.