Every Artie gallery lives at its own address and opens behind a simple PIN screen — this is what your visitors see first.
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Visiting your gallery address shows the PIN gate. Share your gallery's access PIN with anyone you want to let browse your catalog.
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Enter the PIN to unlock the gallery. It starts empty until you add artwork — the Admin button in the top right is how you log in to manage your catalog.
Click Admin from the gallery view to log in and start managing your catalog.
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Clicking Admin opens the login box, asking for your admin password.
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Enter your admin password and click Login.
The first time you log in, Artie walks you through accepting the license agreement and setting a personal password. You'll only see this once.
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Review the License Agreement. Scroll through it to enable the Agree button.
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Once you reach the bottom, click I Agree to accept electronically.
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Next, set a personal password to replace the default one you were given.
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Enter your new password twice to confirm, then click Set Password.
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You're in! This is your admin toolbar — from here you can add artwork, adjust catalog settings, change your password, and update your viewer PIN.
Catalog Settings (in your admin toolbar) is where you shape your catalog's tags — Medium, Subject, and Style — and add custom metadata fields of your own.
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Artie comes with a starter list of common tags for Medium, Subject, and Style, plus a Display Options section for your thumbnail grid. Turn on the ones that fit your work with Disable/Enable.
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Don't see a Medium you need? Type a name, pick a color, and click Add to create your own.
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Same idea for Subject — what's depicted in the piece. Add as many as your catalog needs.
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And Style, for aesthetic approach or movement. Further down, Custom Metadata Fields let you add your own fields beyond title, size, and medium — text, number, date, URL, or a dropdown of your own options.
Photographs and other reproducible work — anything you might print or sell in multiple copies — go through Add Reproducible Artwork. (One-of-a-kind pieces use the plain Add Artwork button next to it.)
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Click Add Reproducible Artwork to open the form. Size, price, location, and availability are tracked per print afterward, so this first pass just covers the basics.
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Click or drag in an image, then fill in the Title, Date Created, and Description.
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Scroll down to tag it — Medium and Subject are both optional and multi-select, so pick as many as apply.
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Add any Style tags too, then click Add Reproducible Artwork to save it.
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Your piece appears in the catalog grid, with its tags shown right on the card.
