How-to guides

These guides show you how to complete tasks with napari. They assume you have already installed napari, know how to launch the viewer, and are familiar with its layout. For help with installation see our installation tutorial. For help getting started with the viewer see our How to launch napari guide. For help understanding the organisation of the viewer, including things like the layers list, the layer properties widgets, the layer control panels, and the dimension sliders see our napari viewer tutorial.

• Using layers: Learn about how to use the layers currently supported by napari.

• Extending napari: Learn how to extend napari by adding widgets and connecting callbacks.

• napari + ImageJ how-to guide: Learn about how to use napari

• napari in Docker: Learn about using napari in docker.

• Performance monitoring: Learn about how to monitor napari performance and diagnose potential problems.

• napari headless: Tips on how to run napari headlessly.

• Themes: Changing appearance of the napari GUI with your own theme and sharing your theme via a plugin.