About Make & Protect
Make & Protect exists because artists increasingly share valuable work through systems they do not control, and the information about how to protect that work is confusing, inconsistent, and often overstated.
Basic protection and documentation should be accessible to any artist, not gated behind expensive tools. An artist should be able to arrive with one image and leave with a protected sharing copy and a portable record — without learning the whole system first.
Records should remain portable. Originals should not have to live in someone else's cloud. Free protection can coexist with paid private infrastructure for studios that need it.
What “free” means here
- Core image protection remains free.
- Free account access to your protection records.
- No sale of artist images or data.
- No AI training on your artwork — ever, unless you explicitly opt in for a specific feature.
- No requirement to buy a private system.
- Expensive optional third-party services may have limits.
We avoid making guarantees that cannot be financially sustained forever. That is exactly why every record is exportable.
Service continuity
We maintain your hosted protection records for the life of the service, and make them easy to download and export so you are not dependent on us as the only copy. For long-term evidence, we encourage portable records and independent timestamps.
Contact info@craftedtools.app.
An independent project from Crafted Tools.
Protecting more than artwork? For knowledge preservation and stewardship, explore Keirn. The two projects are related by philosophy, not merged products.