image as background tkinter code example

Example 1: ad background image with tkinter

app = Tk()
app.title("Welcome")
image2 =Image.open('C:\\Users\\adminp\\Desktop\\titlepage\\front.gif')
image1 = ImageTk.PhotoImage(image2)
w = image1.width()
h = image1.height()
app.geometry('%dx%d+0+0' % (w,h))
#app.configure(background='C:\\Usfront.png')
#app.configure(background = image1)

labelText = StringVar()
labelText.set("Welcome !!!!")
#labelText.fontsize('10')

label1 = Label(app, image=image1, textvariable=labelText,
               font=("Times New Roman", 24),
               justify=CENTER, height=4, fg="blue")
label1.pack()

app.mainloop()

Example 2: tkinter background image python 3

You need to apply the grid method to the label that contains the image, not the image object:

bg_image = PhotoImage(file ="pic.gif")
x = Label (image = bg_image)
x.grid(row = 0, column = 0)
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