diff --git a/asciiWriter/examples/image_random_char.py b/asciiWriter/examples/image_random_char.py
index cdb037c..13ac877 100644
--- a/asciiWriter/examples/image_random_char.py
+++ b/asciiWriter/examples/image_random_char.py
@@ -4,11 +4,13 @@ from asciiWriter.patterns import image
 from asciiWriter.utils import make_lines, visit, print_lines
 from asciiWriter.marks import random, single
 
+from os.path import join, dirname
+
 width = 75
 height = 75
 
 # Where to find the image
-image_path = 'images/blobs-small.png'
+image_path = join(dirname(__file__), 'data', 'blobs-small.png')
 # Construct the pattern
 image_pattern = image(image_path)
 # Set the marker, in this case it makes a random selection from
diff --git a/asciiWriter/examples/image_rotate.py b/asciiWriter/examples/image_rotate.py
index bdedc52..20b9c8c 100644
--- a/asciiWriter/examples/image_rotate.py
+++ b/asciiWriter/examples/image_rotate.py
@@ -10,11 +10,13 @@ from asciiWriter.patterns import image
 from asciiWriter.utils import make_lines, visit, print_lines, rotate
 from asciiWriter.marks import sentence, single
 
+from os.path import join, dirname
+
 width = 75
 height = 75
 
 # Where to find the image
-image_path = 'images/blobs-small.png'
+image_path = join(dirname(__file__), 'data', 'blobs-small.png')
 # Construct the pattern
 image_pattern = image(image_path)
 # Set the marker, in this case a sentence
diff --git a/asciiWriter/examples/image_sentence.py b/asciiWriter/examples/image_sentence.py
index b8245fd..262afc0 100644
--- a/asciiWriter/examples/image_sentence.py
+++ b/asciiWriter/examples/image_sentence.py
@@ -9,12 +9,13 @@ from asciiWriter.patterns import image
 from asciiWriter.utils import make_lines, visit, print_lines
 from asciiWriter.marks import sentence, space
 
+from os.path import join, dirname
+
 width = 75
 height = 75
 
 # Where to find the image
-image_path = 'images/blobs-small.png'
-image_path = 'images/shapes.png'
+image_path = join(dirname(__file__), 'data', 'shapes.png')
 # Construct the pattern
 image_pattern = image(image_path)
 # Set the marker, in this case a sentence
diff --git a/asciiWriter/examples/multi_column_page.py b/asciiWriter/examples/multi_column_page.py
index cd3cf9b..00dbcf2 100644
--- a/asciiWriter/examples/multi_column_page.py
+++ b/asciiWriter/examples/multi_column_page.py
@@ -4,12 +4,14 @@ from asciiWriter.text import make_column, make_multi_column
 from asciiWriter.utils import merge, print_lines, make_lines, translate
 import math
 
+from os.path import join, dirname
+
 # Define width and height of the output
 width = 125
 height = 27
 
 # Import a text
-text = open('texts/about.txt').read()
+text = open(join(dirname(__file__), 'data', 'language.txt')).read()
 
 # Make an empty layers list
 layers = []
diff --git a/asciiWriter/examples/single_column_page.py b/asciiWriter/examples/single_column_page.py
index 54a8caf..4c2ccf5 100644
--- a/asciiWriter/examples/single_column_page.py
+++ b/asciiWriter/examples/single_column_page.py
@@ -5,12 +5,14 @@ from asciiWriter.utils import merge, print_lines, make_lines, translate
 from hyphen import Hyphenator
 import math
 
+from os.path import join, dirname
+
 # Define width and height of the output
 width = 100
 height = 500
 
 # Import a text
-text = open('texts/language.txt').read()
+text = open(join(dirname(__file__), 'data', 'language.txt')).read()
 
 # Import a hyphenator
 h_en = Hyphenator('en_US')