diff --git a/.hgignore b/.hgignore
--- a/.hgignore
+++ b/.hgignore
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
 __pycache__/
 ^\.idea/
 ^images/
+^config.json$
diff --git a/config.json.template b/config.json.template
new file mode 100644
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config.json.template
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+{
+	"misc": {
+		"defaultImage": "1.jpg"
+	},
+	"gui": {
+		"showGrid": true,
+		"showBigPoints": false
+	}
+}
diff --git a/src/config.py b/src/config.py
--- a/src/config.py
+++ b/src/config.py
@@ -1,11 +1,18 @@
+import os
 import logging
+import json
 
 
 logging.basicConfig(format='%(asctime)s %(levelname)s: %(message)s', level=logging.DEBUG)
+with open(os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), "..", "config.json")) as f:
+	cfgFile=json.load(f)
 
 class misc:
+	file=cfgFile["misc"]
 	version=(0,0,0)
+	defaultImage=file.get("defaultImage", "1.jpg")
 
 class gui:
-	showBigPoints=True
-	showGrid=False
+	file=cfgFile["gui"]
+	showBigPoints=file.get("showBigPoints", False)
+	showGrid=file.get("showGrid", True)
diff --git a/src/core.py b/src/core.py
--- a/src/core.py
+++ b/src/core.py
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ from util import MsgQueue
 from gui import gui
 from imageanalyzer import ImageAnalyzer
 from go import Go
+import config as cfg
 
 
 class Core:
@@ -18,7 +19,7 @@ class Core:
 		self._ownMessages=MsgQueue(self._handleEvent)
 		self._guiMessages=MsgQueue()
 
-		imgPath=os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), "..","images","5.jpg")
+		imgPath=os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), "..","images",cfg.misc.defaultImage)
 		self._frame=PIL.Image.open(imgPath)
 
 		self._guiProc=multiprocessing.Process(name="gui", target=gui, args=(self._guiMessages,self._ownMessages))