# Image’s interface

The `TaurusImageDialog` widget is a Taurus Widget for displaying image attributes from the control system. A contour plot is created from the values of the image attribute.

A TaurusImage widget displaying the sys/tg_test/1/long_image_ro attribute

Many tools may be available, such as:

- zooming and panning

- X/Y cross sections

- Annotation tools (for creating labels, shapes,…)

- add/delete images

- …

Note

The `TaurusImageDialog` widget is provided by the `taurus.qt.qtgui.extra_guiqwt` module which depends on the `guiqwt` module being installed. If guiqwt is not installed, the image widget will not be available.

## TaurusImageDialog as a stand-alone application

You may also use TaurusImageDialog as a stand-alone application for showing image attributes from the control system. You can launch the stand-alone Taurus Image with the following command:

    taurus guiqwt image [options] <model>

Run the following command for more details:

    taurus guiqwt image --help