Well, I am enjoying a very interesting weekend. I'm currently at PIA/GATF's Color Management conference, which has been very enjoyable, and has enabled me to confirm much of my own research and hypotheses around best practices and color theory.

The entire experience has been very enjoyable thus far. Being here amongst color folks has been interesting. I'm a little bit out of place, as this group is highly focused on the intersection of additive editing and subtractive printing, and moving towards purely additive processes.

Again, the focus is on printing. This has been informative for me as a printer (personally) but my actual pursuits are more general regarding management, and hopefully we'll get into that over the next several days. The electronic distribution industry has not suffered the same complaints as the print industry because the end client is not a content creator but rather a general consumer. If something is "too red" the consumer blames this on the creative at the far back end, generally because the color process is opaque to them and they do not understand it (at all).

Here on deviantArt, there is very little focus on accurate presentation, partially because of the difficulty (or impossibility) of standardization and verification, but also (interestingly) because the users do not care so much about their own decisions but more about consensus regarding the value of a given piece of creative.

It will be interesting to see if this sort of mob-rule continues to drive creative decisions or if creatives will simply create content that is so extreme in spatial (cielab) relationships, that as long as the relationships are relatively preserved, the genuine intent is irrelevant (to the artist).

I'm beginning to wonder if this phenomenon can explain the emergence of wide gamut content like HDR as popular, because regardless of distribution type, the relationships are at some extreme edges of the display's gamut that the accurate rendering attributes of the hardware are made irrelevant.

Interesting stuff!