diff --git a/deepface/DeepFace.py b/deepface/DeepFace.py
index a68ed2a..327661b 100644
--- a/deepface/DeepFace.py
+++ b/deepface/DeepFace.py
@@ -779,7 +779,7 @@ def stream(db_path = '', model_name ='VGG-Face', detector_backend = 'opencv', di
 	realtime.analysis(db_path, model_name, detector_backend, distance_metric, enable_face_analysis
 						, source = source, time_threshold = time_threshold, frame_threshold = frame_threshold)
 
-def detectFace(img_path, detector_backend = 'opencv', enforce_detection = True):
+def detectFace(img_path, detector_backend = 'opencv', enforce_detection = True, align = True):
 
 	"""
 	This function applies pre-processing stages of a face recognition pipeline including detection and alignment
@@ -794,7 +794,7 @@ def detectFace(img_path, detector_backend = 'opencv', enforce_detection = True):
 	"""
 
 	img = functions.preprocess_face(img = img_path, detector_backend = detector_backend
-		, enforce_detection = enforce_detection)[0] #preprocess_face returns (1, 224, 224, 3)
+		, enforce_detection = enforce_detection, align = align)[0] #preprocess_face returns (1, 224, 224, 3)
 	return img[:, :, ::-1] #bgr to rgb
 
 #---------------------------
diff --git a/deepface/commons/functions.py b/deepface/commons/functions.py
index 8cd298c..f1ed9dc 100644
--- a/deepface/commons/functions.py
+++ b/deepface/commons/functions.py
@@ -153,10 +153,14 @@ def preprocess_face(img, target_size=(224, 224), grayscale = False, enforce_dete
 
 	#---------------------------------------------------
 
+	#normalizing the image pixels
+
 	img_pixels = image.img_to_array(img)
 	img_pixels = np.expand_dims(img_pixels, axis = 0)
 	img_pixels /= 255 #normalize input in [0, 1]
 
+	#---------------------------------------------------
+
 	if return_region == True:
 		return img_pixels, region
 	else: