The invention provides a private collection picture set catalogue processing method, which is applied to the technical field of culture collection databases, and has the beneficial effects that a large number of collection pictures can be summarized and sorted by applying big data and electronic file classification technologies, and a collector picture set catalogue is generated; private collections can be liberated from a heavy paper catalog, data collection of a large number of precious private collections is achieved, and big data statistical analysis of a large number of collections can be completed; gradient watermarks are added to the collected pictures, so that the anti-counterfeiting performance of the collected pictures is effectively improved, the watermarks cannot be completely removed from the pictures, and the risk that the collection pictures are stolen is avoided; the configuration of a shared file can be realized by establishing a private collection picture set catalogue, the mapping mode is flexible, the catalogue is accessed through a browsing path, the access speed can be improved, the picture set is prevented from being copied, a database is prevented from being attacked, and online viewing, online sharing and online transaction of electronic collection pictures among users are facilitated.