Learn how to design for Scodix in a few, very easy steps…

Catch the eye with metallic colors!

Metallic colors add a luxury look to your products – and add value for your customers and profit for your business.

You and Scodix go Metallic

This new tool in our basket of enhancements takes your designs to another level by incorporating a metallic feel and color. Silver, Gold, Purple and more. Give your creations something different that really captures your audience’s senses. We all know that once you have that appeal, you are adding huge value to brand awareness.

Use Scodix Metallic™ as your creative game changer. Stand out from the rest by adding depth and dimension and packing on the “wow” factor. With the tangible Scodix Metallic Colors, customers don’t just see your work but feel it too. Catch their emotions as well as their eyes and fingertips for a truly lasting impression.

You can achieve a variety of unique metallic colors with stunning results, depending on your preference. You visualize it and we will make it happen. Shiny, luxurious and completely SENSE-ational – just like your designs.

Watch this space for the next Story of the Month, where we will shine a light on more ways for you to spice up your creations, to push creative boundaries and to produce valuable pieces that engage the senses.

Creating Artwork for Scodix

Open your artwork in your preferred design software and create a new layer for the Scodix separation.
Select the elements you wish to enhance and duplicate them to the new Scodix layer.

Create a New Color Swatch and name it “Scodix”, select Color Type “Spot Color”, and convert all Scodix elements to this spot color.

Density effect:
To achieve density effects, you just apply different levels of opacity to the desired elements; to achieve a high gloss effect you apply full density – 100% opacity, for a matte effect, you apply low density – 5% – 30% opacity. If the item to be enhanced is a picture, you will need to create a mask in Photoshop. You will see the different densities on the UV layer.

Then we save the graphic working file and save the two layers – CMYK and UV – in PDF.

• Create a Scodix separation
• Create Scodix Spot Color
• Define density effect
• Save the CMYK/UV files as PDF

To produce the Scodix Metallic effect, Scodix PolySENSE™ is applied, using the same process, on top of a silver lamination to achieve a wide variety of metallic colors.

Scodix recommended media / materials list – Please download it here