Fashion production glossary
Image provenance
Image provenance is information about the origin and history of a digital image, including who or what created it, which source assets or tools were involved, and what edits were recorded. It may be carried through metadata, signed manifests, watermarks, hashes, or external logs.
Context
Understand the term in production
Provenance helps people and systems inspect documented history and detect some forms of tampering. It does not by itself prove that the depicted scene is true, that every edit was recorded, or that the image meets a separate quality standard.
How it works
Follow the production logic
- 01
Record the origin
Associate the asset with available creator, tool, generation, source, and time information.
- 02
Carry the history
Attach or reference provenance data as the asset is edited, exported, and delivered.
- 03
Verify the signals
Check signatures, bindings, watermarks, hashes, or trusted logs and report what can be validated.