diff --git a/candle-examples/examples/dinov2/main.rs b/candle-examples/examples/dinov2/main.rs
index 9a255511..6bef4dae 100644
--- a/candle-examples/examples/dinov2/main.rs
+++ b/candle-examples/examples/dinov2/main.rs
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ impl LayerScale {
 
 impl Module for LayerScale {
     fn forward(&self, xs: &Tensor) -> Result<Tensor> {
-        xs * &self.gamma
+        xs.broadcast_mul(&self.gamma)
     }
 }
 
@@ -306,10 +306,17 @@ pub fn main() -> anyhow::Result<()> {
 
     let device = candle_examples::device(args.cpu)?;
 
+    // TODO: apply imagenet normalization.
+    let image = candle_examples::load_image(args.image)?;
+    println!("loaded image {image:?}");
+
     let weights = unsafe { candle::safetensors::MmapedFile::new(args.model)? };
     let weights = weights.deserialize()?;
     let vb = VarBuilder::from_safetensors(vec![weights], DType::F32, &device);
-    let _model = vit_small(vb)?;
+    let model = vit_small(vb)?;
     println!("model built");
+    let logits = model.forward(&image.unsqueeze(0)?)?;
+    let prs = candle_nn::ops::softmax(&logits, D::Minus1)?;
+    println!("{prs}");
     Ok(())
 }
diff --git a/candle-examples/examples/stable-diffusion/main.rs b/candle-examples/examples/stable-diffusion/main.rs
index 6edd8ae6..10bbd309 100644
--- a/candle-examples/examples/stable-diffusion/main.rs
+++ b/candle-examples/examples/stable-diffusion/main.rs
@@ -332,7 +332,7 @@ fn run(args: Args) -> Result<()> {
                 let image = (image * 255.)?.to_dtype(DType::U8)?.i(0)?;
                 let image_filename =
                     output_filename(&final_image, idx + 1, num_samples, Some(timestep_index + 1));
-                crate::utils::save_image(&image, image_filename)?
+                candle_examples::save_image(&image, image_filename)?
             }
         }
 
@@ -346,7 +346,7 @@ fn run(args: Args) -> Result<()> {
         let image = ((image / 2.)? + 0.5)?.to_device(&Device::Cpu)?;
         let image = (image * 255.)?.to_dtype(DType::U8)?.i(0)?;
         let image_filename = output_filename(&final_image, idx + 1, num_samples, None);
-        crate::utils::save_image(&image, image_filename)?
+        candle_examples::save_image(&image, image_filename)?
     }
     Ok(())
 }
diff --git a/candle-examples/examples/stable-diffusion/utils.rs b/candle-examples/examples/stable-diffusion/utils.rs
index 5602a9ad..c62f17af 100644
--- a/candle-examples/examples/stable-diffusion/utils.rs
+++ b/candle-examples/examples/stable-diffusion/utils.rs
@@ -12,25 +12,6 @@ pub fn linspace(start: f64, stop: f64, steps: usize) -> Result<Tensor> {
     Tensor::from_vec(vs, steps, &Device::Cpu)
 }
 
-/// Saves an image to disk using the image crate, this expects an input with shape
-/// (c, width, height).
-pub fn save_image<P: AsRef<std::path::Path>>(img: &Tensor, p: P) -> Result<()> {
-    let p = p.as_ref();
-    let (channel, width, height) = img.dims3()?;
-    if channel != 3 {
-        candle::bail!("save_image expects an input of shape (3, width, height)")
-    }
-    let img = img.transpose(0, 1)?.t()?.flatten_all()?;
-    let pixels = img.to_vec1::<u8>()?;
-    let image: image::ImageBuffer<image::Rgb<u8>, Vec<u8>> =
-        match image::ImageBuffer::from_raw(width as u32, height as u32, pixels) {
-            Some(image) => image,
-            None => candle::bail!("error saving image {p:?}"),
-        };
-    image.save(p).map_err(candle::Error::wrap)?;
-    Ok(())
-}
-
 // Wrap the conv2d op to provide some tracing.
 #[derive(Debug)]
 pub struct Conv2d {
diff --git a/candle-examples/src/lib.rs b/candle-examples/src/lib.rs
index 2b6009b4..93da0240 100644
--- a/candle-examples/src/lib.rs
+++ b/candle-examples/src/lib.rs
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-use candle::{Device, Result};
+use candle::{Device, Result, Tensor};
 
 pub fn device(cpu: bool) -> Result<Device> {
     if cpu {
@@ -12,6 +12,42 @@ pub fn device(cpu: bool) -> Result<Device> {
     }
 }
 
+/// Loads an image from disk using the image crate, this returns a tensor with shape
+/// (3, 224, 224). imagenet normaliation is applied.
+pub fn load_image<P: AsRef<std::path::Path>>(p: P) -> Result<Tensor> {
+    let img = image::io::Reader::open(p)?
+        .decode()
+        .map_err(candle::Error::wrap)?
+        .resize_to_fill(224, 224, image::imageops::FilterType::Triangle);
+    let img = img.to_rgb8();
+    let data = img.into_raw();
+    let data = Tensor::from_vec(data, (3, 224, 224), &Device::Cpu)?;
+    let mean = Tensor::new(&[0.485f32, 0.456, 0.406], &Device::Cpu)?.reshape((3, 1, 1))?;
+    let std = Tensor::new(&[0.229f32, 0.224, 0.225], &Device::Cpu)?.reshape((3, 1, 1))?;
+    (data.to_dtype(candle::DType::F32)? / 255.)?
+        .broadcast_sub(&mean)?
+        .broadcast_div(&std)
+}
+
+/// Saves an image to disk using the image crate, this expects an input with shape
+/// (c, width, height).
+pub fn save_image<P: AsRef<std::path::Path>>(img: &Tensor, p: P) -> Result<()> {
+    let p = p.as_ref();
+    let (channel, width, height) = img.dims3()?;
+    if channel != 3 {
+        candle::bail!("save_image expects an input of shape (3, width, height)")
+    }
+    let img = img.transpose(0, 1)?.t()?.flatten_all()?;
+    let pixels = img.to_vec1::<u8>()?;
+    let image: image::ImageBuffer<image::Rgb<u8>, Vec<u8>> =
+        match image::ImageBuffer::from_raw(width as u32, height as u32, pixels) {
+            Some(image) => image,
+            None => candle::bail!("error saving image {p:?}"),
+        };
+    image.save(p).map_err(candle::Error::wrap)?;
+    Ok(())
+}
+
 #[cfg(test)]
 mod tests {
     // NOTE: Waiting on https://github.com/rust-lang/mdBook/pull/1856