diff --git a/doc/source/install.txt b/doc/source/install.txt
index 2c10febb..0f7e824c 100644
--- a/doc/source/install.txt
+++ b/doc/source/install.txt
@@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ To update::
 Building with bento
 ```````````````````
 
-``scikit-image`` can also be built using `bento
+Alternatively, ``scikit-image`` can also be built using `bento
 <http://cournape.github.io/Bento/>`__.  Bento depends on `WAF
 <https://code.google.com/p/waf/>`__ for compilation.
 
diff --git a/skimage/novice/__init__.py b/skimage/novice/__init__.py
index 1b675801..0739ca76 100644
--- a/skimage/novice/__init__.py
+++ b/skimage/novice/__init__.py
@@ -27,6 +27,10 @@ We can create a Picture object open opening an image file:
 >>> from skimage import data
 >>> picture = novice.open(data.data_dir + '/chelsea.png')
 
+We can display pictures (after running this command, close the window to access the prompt again):
+
+>>> picture.show()
+
 Pictures know their format:
 
 >>> picture.format
@@ -44,16 +48,24 @@ True
 >>> picture.width
 451
 
+As a reminder, we can preview the picture with our earlier command:
+
+>>> picture.show()
+
 Changing `size` resizes the picture.
 
 >>> picture.size = (45, 30)
 
+We can preview the changes we made to the picture with our earlier command:
+
+>>> picture.show()
+
 You can iterate over pixels, which have RGB values between 0 and 255,
 and know their location in the picture.
 
 >>> for pixel in picture:
 ...     if (pixel.red > 128) and (pixel.x < picture.width):
-...         pixel.red /= 2
+...         pixel.red = pixel.red / 2
 
 Pictures know if they've been modified from the original file