Introduction
[Seán Duggan]: Did you know that you can apply Content Credentials to your images in Lightroom that can be customized with information about yourself, the social media accounts where you post your creative work, and even the types of edits that have been applied to an image?
Hi, I'm Seán Duggan with Adobe Learn.
In this tutorial, I'll show you how Content Credentials can be configured and applied to the photos that you export from Lightroom, Lightroom Classic, Lightroom on mobile, and Lightroom on the web.
Set Up Your Content Authenticity Profile
Before we check out how to use Content Credentials in Lightroom, let's take a quick look at the Adobe Content Authenticity website, which you can find at contentauthenticity.adobe.com.
Here, you can find more detailed information about Content Credentials and how they work.
After you log in with your Adobe ID, you can use the Preferences page to connect your social media accounts, and if you choose, you can also have your name verified through LinkedIn.
On the Apply page, you can add credentials to any images that you upload, and you can also manage the images that you've already applied credentials to.
Inspect an image for Content Credentials and view the edit history.
With the Inspect tool, you can upload images to see if they already have Content Credentials, and depending on how the credentials were applied, you can even see how an image has been edited.
For example, this is a photo that I edited in Lightroom, and because I chose to include the edit activity with my Content Credentials, you can see a summary of the edits that I made and see how the edited version compares to the original file.
Configure Content Credentials in Lightroom.
Now let's see how Content Credentials can be attached to images in the Lightroom ecosystem.
In Lightroom on desktop, go to the Preferences and you can find the options for Content Credentials in the Export panel.
Here, you can choose how the credentials will be stored when you export an image.
They can be published to the Content Credentials cloud, attached to the exported files, or you can do both - include the credentials with the file and publish them to the cloud.
Credentials that are published to the Content Credentials cloud are more resilient and recoverable.
You can also choose what information to include in the credentials.
You can see here that my name will be included, as well as my connected social media accounts.
I've already connected these on the Preferences page of contentauthenticity.adobe.com.
If you have not done that yet, you can click Manage here in the Lightroom Preferences to connect your own social media accounts.
The option for Edits and activity will include a summary of how the image has been edited.
We saw how that looks earlier when I showed you the Inspect tool on the Adobe Content Authenticity website.
This can be important in situations where you need to verify how a photo has been edited.
If you enable the setting at the bottom, your Content Credentials will automatically be attached to files when you use an export shortcut or one of the export presets.
If you want to export a file and not attach any credentials to it, click the Share or Export icon in the upper right and choose Custom Settings.
In the lower right of the Export window, you can disable Content Credentials options for that exported file.
Apply Content Credentials in Lightroom on mobile and Lightroom web.
You can even apply Content Credentials to exported files when using Lightroom on mobile and Lightroom on the web.
In the mobile app, tap the Lightroom icon in the upper-left corner, then choose Content Credentials to choose your settings.
In Lightroom on the web, click the Share or Export icon in the upper right, then click the Gear icon to open the Preferences.
Here, you can turn on Content Credentials and configure how the credentials are attached to the exported files.
Export Photos with Content Credentials in Lightroom Classic.
In Lightroom Classic, the settings for Content Credentials are found in the Export... dialog.
When you choose to export a file here, you have the same options as in Lightroom on desktop to control whether the credentials are attached, how they are saved, and what information is included.
That's a quick overview of how you can attach Content Credentials to the files that you export from the different apps in the Lightroom ecosystem.
And remember that you can learn more about Content Credentials at contentauthenticity.adobe.com.
I'm Seán Duggan from Adobe Learn.
Thanks for watching.
