diff --git a/samples/cpp/imagelist_creator.cpp b/samples/cpp/imagelist_creator.cpp
index f2d3bdaf2..172f7fdb9 100644
--- a/samples/cpp/imagelist_creator.cpp
+++ b/samples/cpp/imagelist_creator.cpp
@@ -14,7 +14,8 @@ using namespace cv;
 
 void help(char** av)
 {
-  cout << "usage:\n" << av[0] << " imagelist.yaml *.png\n"
+  cout << "\nThis creates a yaml or xml list of files from the command line args\n"
+		  "usage:\n./" << av[0] << " imagelist.yaml *.png\n"
       << "Try using different extensions.(e.g. yaml yml xml xml.gz etc...)\n"
       << "This will serialize this list of images or whatever with opencv's FileStorage framework" << endl;
 }