I want to fuse two 16 bit satellite images using GDAL library in python. I had processed images using PIL, pywavelet libraries. But 16 bit images are not properly displayed in python. I would like to know about any method to display 16 bit image in python which can be visually interpreted. In some literature, I read of converting 16 bit images to 8 bit and then fusing them. Is it a right approach?