How to use an image for the background in tkinter?

#import statements
from Tkinter import *
import tkMessageBox
import tkFont
from PIL import ImageTk,Image

Code to import image:

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()

This code doesn’t work. I want to import a background image.

Answers:

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Method 1

One simple method is to use place to use an image as a background image. This is the type of thing that place is really good at doing.

For example:

background_image=tk.PhotoImage(...)
background_label = tk.Label(parent, image=background_image)
background_label.place(x=0, y=0, relwidth=1, relheight=1)

You can then grid or pack other widgets in the parent as normal. Just make sure you create the background label first so it has a lower stacking order.

Note: if you are doing this inside a function, make sure you keep a reference to the image, otherwise the image will be destroyed by the garbage collector when the function returns. A common technique is to add a reference as an attribute of the label object:

background_label.image = background_image

Method 2

A simple tkinter code for Python 3 for setting background image .

from tkinter import *
from tkinter import messagebox
top = Tk()

C = Canvas(top, bg="blue", height=250, width=300)
filename = PhotoImage(file = "C:\Users\location\imageName.png")
background_label = Label(top, image=filename)
background_label.place(x=0, y=0, relwidth=1, relheight=1)

C.pack()
top.mainloop

Method 3

You can use this:

root.configure(background='your colour')

Example:-

import tkinter
root=tkiner.Tk()
root.configure(background='pink')

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