For photographers
Photography inventory software for finished work
Artwork Codex works just as well for fine art photographers as it does for painters and collectors: keep finished images, print editions, certificates, viewing rooms, portfolios, documents, sales, and exports in one quiet archive.
Build a photography archive in the live demo
Open the demo to see how records, editions, catalogs, viewing rooms, and portfolios fit together before you sign up.
Best for finished works and edition management. Keep Lightroom or Capture One for RAW editing and culling.
What photographers need from inventory software
Fine art photography has the same archive problem as any other art practice, with a few extra pressures: editions, print sizes, proofs, file versions, collector records, certificates, and polished presentation. A folder structure can store files, but it cannot tell you which copy sold, which print is on consignment, or which selection was sent to a collector last month.
Artwork Codex gives each finished photograph a structured artwork record. Images, titles, dates, medium, dimensions, price, status, edition details, provenance, documents, sales, and notes stay attached to the work instead of drifting across spreadsheets and drive folders.
Edition records for prints, proofs, and sold copies
Edition tracking is one of the clearest reasons photographers outgrow a generic spreadsheet. A collector buying 3/10 expects that copy to be recorded. A gallery handling a print on consignment expects the edition status to be clear. Your future self expects to know what has already left the studio.
Artwork Codex supports edition sizes and individual edition copy records, so you can distinguish available prints, sold copies, artist proofs, and works currently with a gallery. The practical workflow is simple: the photograph is the work, and each edition copy is a trackable record under it.
Portfolio, viewing rooms, and PDF catalogues from the same archive
Photographers often need several presentation formats from the same body of work: a public portfolio, a private viewing room for a collector, and a PDF catalog or price list for follow-up. Artwork Codex keeps those outputs connected to the same records so details stay consistent.
Publish a clean portfolio, prepare a password-protected viewing room, or generate a catalog without rewriting titles, dimensions, edition notes, and prices every time. The archive is the source of truth.
Certificates, provenance, documents, and sales
Finished photography still needs documentation. Certificates of authenticity, sales records, collector contacts, consignment notes, invoices, and supporting documents all matter once work is sold, insured, shown, or transferred.
Artwork Codex keeps that context beside the photograph. When a collector asks about a print, you are not searching a drive, email, spreadsheet, and invoice folder separately.
What Artwork Codex is not
Artwork Codex is not a Lightroom replacement, a RAW processor, or a high-volume shoot management system. Keep your editing, ingesting, rating, and color workflow in photography tools built for that job.
Use Artwork Codex after the edit, when a photograph becomes a finished artwork that needs records, editions, presentation, provenance, sales history, certificates, and exports.