From c68c8e5468e039ae7304f7bb4173b6c33f9aa2ca Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Juan Nunez-Iglesias <juan.n@unimelb.edu.au>
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2015 16:36:40 +1100
Subject: [PATCH] Improve mpl imshow plugin docstring

---
 skimage/io/_plugins/matplotlib_plugin.py | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/skimage/io/_plugins/matplotlib_plugin.py b/skimage/io/_plugins/matplotlib_plugin.py
index a65f8cf0..aab5e628 100644
--- a/skimage/io/_plugins/matplotlib_plugin.py
+++ b/skimage/io/_plugins/matplotlib_plugin.py
@@ -14,7 +14,8 @@ def imshow(im, *args, **kwargs):
 
     In contrast, if the image exceeds the standard range, this
     function defaults back to displaying exactly the range of the
-    input image.
+    input image, along with a colorbar to clearly indicate that
+    this range transformation has occurred.
 
     Parameters
     ----------