title: Loading a picture with sci-kit image displays wrong colours in image
body: <p>I'm having problems loading my image with Python. The following is my code:</p>
  
  <pre><code>from skimage import io
  import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
  
  image = io.imread('.tif file was put here')
  
  plt.imshow(image)
  plt.show()
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Running this in the Python 3.4 shell results in my image coming up, but rather than being in its normal colour (greyscale) it shows up with rainbow-like colours. This also happens when I try to run this code for the Lena test image:</p>
  
  <pre><code>from scipy import misc
  l = misc.lena()
  misc.imsave('lena.png', l) # uses the Image module (PIL)
  
  import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
  plt.imshow(l)
  plt.show()
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>You can see the image output that Python displays with the wrong colours here: <a href="http://imgur.com/SzqrhB2,rSXGQJu" rel="nofollow">http://imgur.com/SzqrhB2,rSXGQJu</a>. Any help would be much appreciated!</p>