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Step 13 - Finished

This step informs the user that the process has been successfully completed. It will not be reachable until the profile has been saved in the previous step.

The profile that you just created is made the default profile when you quit. This default profile is set in the “Displays” pane of the System Preferences. To see this setting, simply open the System Preferences and select "Displays", then select the "Color" tab.

Starting with version 1.2.1, SuperCal profiles now contain an internal "make and model" tag that identifies the display characterized by the profile. If "Show profiles for this display only" is checked under the Color Tab of the Displays preference pane inside System Preferences, you should only see the currently selected profile and any other profiles that contain an internal "make and model" tag that matches your display.

Note that if you have a SuperCal 1.2.0 or earlier profile selected as the current display profile and you create a new profile with SuperCal 1.2.1 or later, your old profile will disappear from the list if "Show profiles for this display only" is checked. This occurs because the new profile becomes the current profile, and the old profile is hidden because it lacks the "make and model" tag that matches your display. Simply uncheck "Show profiles for this display only" and your other profiles should reappear below a horizontal divider in the list.

If you wish to update any of your old SuperCal profiles to include this "make and model" tag, you can simply open each profile in step 3 of SuperCal then advance to the last step (without making any other changes) to re-save the profile.

When you click on a profile in the list to make it the current profile, you should notice your display change in appearance. This is because most profiles contain a corrective table that adjusts the video card gamma table which corrects for the inaccurate response characteristics of its corresponding display. If you select a profile for a completely different display model or colorspace, you may notice an extreme visual change because of the differences between your display and the display for which the profile was generated.

A little background on the Display preference pane in System Preferences...

Because of the design of the Display preference pane in older versions of Mac OS X, some profiles simply could not be shown unless they either 1) contained the "make and model" tag that exactly matched the display, or 2) lacked the internal "make and model" tag which made them generic. Because some models of Macintosh machines had minor variations that changed this tag (like identical PowerBook models with different processor speeds), users were unable to share profiles or even use existing profiles after repairing or upgrading to a newer machine. Removing this tag from the profiles allowed SuperCal profiles to be used and shared openly, which while not the best idea for something as device-specific as a color profile, it made our users happy and was often better than the default profile for many a display.