diff --git a/doc/source/conf.py b/doc/source/conf.py
index 8ffd8cda..a4f13f68 100644
--- a/doc/source/conf.py
+++ b/doc/source/conf.py
@@ -19,14 +19,16 @@ import sys, os
 #sys.path.append(os.path.abspath('.'))
 
 curpath = os.path.dirname(__file__)
-sys.path.append(os.path.join(curpath, '../ext'))
+sys.path.append(os.path.join(curpath, '..', 'ext'))
 
 # -- General configuration -----------------------------------------------------
 
 # Add any Sphinx extension module names here, as strings. They can be extensions
 # coming with Sphinx (named 'sphinx.ext.*') or your custom ones.
 extensions = ['sphinx.ext.autodoc', 'sphinx.ext.pngmath', 'numpydoc',
-              'sphinx.ext.autosummary', 'sphinx.ext.inheritance_diagram']
+              'sphinx.ext.autosummary', 'sphinx.ext.inheritance_diagram',
+              'numpydoc.only_directives',
+              'numpydoc.plot_directive']
 
 # Add any paths that contain templates here, relative to this directory.
 templates_path = ['_templates']
@@ -115,7 +117,7 @@ html_theme = 'default'
 
 # The name for this set of Sphinx documents.  If None, it defaults to
 # "<project> v<release> documentation".
-#html_title = None
+html_title = 'v%s documentation'%version
 
 # A shorter title for the navigation bar.  Default is the same as html_title.
 #html_short_title = None
@@ -210,3 +212,40 @@ latex_documents = [
 
 # If false, no module index is generated.
 #latex_use_modindex = True
+
+# -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# Numpy extensions
+# -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# Make numpydoc to generate plots for example sections
+#numpydoc_use_plots = True
+
+# -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# Plots
+# -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+plot_pre_code = """
+import numpy as np
+import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
+np.random.seed(0)
+"""
+plot_include_source = False
+plot_formats = [('png', 100), 'pdf']
+
+import math
+phi = (math.sqrt(5) + 1)/2
+
+import matplotlib
+matplotlib.rcParams.update({
+    'font.size': 8,
+    'axes.titlesize': 8,
+    'axes.labelsize': 8,
+    'xtick.labelsize': 8,
+    'ytick.labelsize': 8,
+    'legend.fontsize': 8,
+    'figure.figsize': (3*phi, 3),
+    'figure.subplot.bottom': 0.2,
+    'figure.subplot.left': 0.2,
+    'figure.subplot.right': 0.9,
+    'figure.subplot.top': 0.85,
+    'figure.subplot.wspace': 0.4,
+    'text.usetex': False,
+})
diff --git a/doc/source/plots/show_collection.py b/doc/source/plots/show_collection.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..cb88e12f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/doc/source/plots/show_collection.py
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+import os
+
+import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
+from mpl_toolkits.axes_grid import AxesGrid
+import numpy as np
+
+from scikits.image.io import MultiImage
+from scikits.image import data_dir
+
+
+fname = os.path.join(data_dir, 'multipage.tif')
+img = MultiImage(fname)
+
+fig = plt.figure()
+grid = AxesGrid(fig, 111,
+                nrows_ncols = (1, 2),
+                axes_pad = 0.1,
+                add_all=True,
+                label_mode = "L",
+                aspect=True)
+
+for i, frame in enumerate(img):
+    grid[i].imshow(frame, cmap=plt.cm.gray)
+    grid[i].set_xlabel('Frame %s'%i)
+    grid[i].set_xticks([])
+    grid[i].set_yticks([])
+
+plt.show()
diff --git a/scikits/image/io/collection.py b/scikits/image/io/collection.py
index 3001dd46..399c3a70 100644
--- a/scikits/image/io/collection.py
+++ b/scikits/image/io/collection.py
@@ -57,9 +57,13 @@ class MultiImage(object):
     ...     print frame.shape
     (15, 10)
     (15, 10)
+
+    The two frames in this image can be shown with matplotlib:
+
+    .. plot:: ../plots/show_collection.py
     """
     def __init__(self, filename, conserve_memory=True, dtype=None):
-        """Load a multi-img"""
+        """Load a multi-img."""
         self._filename = filename
         self._conserve_memory = conserve_memory
         self._dtype = dtype