code to choose an image from a folder

hello i tried the following code

path = 'c:\users\userName\my documents\matlab';
filter = '*.bmp';
selectedFile = uigetfile(fullfile(path , filter));
imshow(selectedFile)

iam not able to display the image. please help.

thank you

Answer 1

[Chad Greene]

Try

I = imread(selectedFile); 
imshow(I)

[Shweta Naiskar]

thank you