Layers guide

Layers are the viewable objects that can be added to a viewer, and are the primary way that napari represents and interacts with data. Each layer type is designed to handle a specific type of data, such as images, points, shapes, and more.

To learn about how to use the layers currently supported by napari, check the following how-to guides:

• Image
• Labels
• Shapes
• Points
• Tracks
• Vectors
• Surface

Each of these guides has a section on how to manipulate the layers using the GUI controls and a section on how to manipulate them programmatically.

For a high-level overview of the napari Layers, see Layers: bringing data into napari.