CREAPARATE
Designs are created and color-separated simultaneously. Tonal transitions, depth and individually controllable colors become part of the design from the beginning.
LYTEXA Press
A new approach to surface design.
Professional color separation, interactive color development and a direct workflow into Photoshop — brought together in one international B2B platform.
The platform
Surface design meets production expertise.
LYTEXA is an international B2B platform that combines professionally prepared surface designs with real color separations, interactive color development and a direct workflow into Adobe Photoshop.
Every design is supplied with independently controllable colors, allowing professional color development without rebuilding the artwork.
Before licensing, users can explore designs at different scales, view them on realistic products and develop their own colorways directly in LYTEXA Color Lab.
The separation doesn't come after the design. It is created with it.
CREAPARATE
Create and separate — at the same time. With CREAPARATE, design creation and color separation happen simultaneously. Instead of separating a finished image afterwards, controllable colors, tonal transitions and depth are developed as part of the creative process itself.
What makes LYTEXA different
From separation to interaction.
Color development before licensing
Every separation can be recolored online. Colors can be exchanged by drag and drop and new combinations explored before a design is licensed.
Color Lab
More than one hundred color themes provide a starting point for automatic combinations, while complete palettes can be shifted in color range, saturation and brightness.
From browser to Photoshop
After licensing, a developed palette can be transferred to the dedicated LYTEXA Photoshop extension and applied directly to the Color Fill Layers of the production file.
45 years of experience. One idea, finally possible.
Stephan Alker began his career at Transfertex in 1980, training in print reproduction and gravure retouching at a time when color separation was an entirely analogue process. Working with film and darkrooms, designs were separated into up to six individual colors before being prepared for gravure printing on copper cylinders.
In the early 1990s he moved into electronic image processing, first using Silicon Graphics systems and BARCO software. Transfertex later made what was then an unconventional move to Apple Macintosh and Adobe Photoshop, which became his daily working environment for the decades that followed.
His work increasingly connected design creation with technical color separation. He later headed Transfertex's reproduction department. In the early 2000s he developed an early concept for standardized digital surface designs and founded patterndisc, attempting to bring the idea to market on CD-ROM. The market, however, was not yet ready.
After leaving Transfertex following a 45-year career, he continued designing and licensing surface designs. New AI-assisted technologies eventually provided the tools to turn decades of production experience and a long-standing idea into a new platform.
That experience also shaped CREAPARATE — an approach in which design creation and color separation are not separate production stages, but part of the same creative process.
LYTEXA is the result.
The innovation
Color development before licensing.
Explore complete colorways directly on the design. Recolor individual separations, exchange colors by drag and drop, generate new combinations from curated color themes and transform entire palettes in real time.
At a glance
Press facts.
Founded
2026
Based
Germany
Market
International · B2B
Field
Surface Design · Textile ·
Fashion · Interior
Core technology
CREAPARATE · Color Lab ·
Photoshop workflow
Platform
lytexa.com
About
About LYTEXA.
LYTEXA is an international B2B platform for production-ready surface design. Unlike conventional pattern marketplaces, LYTEXA combines CREAPARATE-created color separations with interactive color development, realistic product previews and a direct Photoshop workflow. Its Color Lab enables users to develop complete colorways before licensing, while the dedicated LYTEXA Photoshop extension transfers selected palettes directly into the production file. LYTEXA is based in Germany and serves designers, brands, manufacturers, printers and product developers internationally.
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Stephan Alker
Founder, LYTEXA
Germany
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