# Load image from DB into Image object **URL:** \ **Category:** Ignition\ **Created:** [October 31, 2016, 10:03pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/load-image-from-db-into-image-object/12309 "2016-10-31T22:03:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 10
**Author:** ![JordanCClark](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/jordancclark/32/83362_2.png) [@JordanCClark](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/JordanCClark)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2021, 10:49am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/load-image-from-db-into-image-object/12309/10 "2021-08-27T10:49:26Z")
> [@eric.petke](#): > > More generally, is it possible to make my perspective image component display a BLOB image? > [@View Images from Database](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/view-images-from-database/22626/4): > > If you’re asking for how to do this in Perspective: Currently, you would probably have to do it using a webdev script, that could either return the image directly or a correctly formatted base64 string, which would then be able to be used by Perspective’s image component (I’m pretty sure). There are some ways that we could improve this experience, but the hard problem to deal with is the fact that the browser can’t directly access the database - so we need to deliver the images to it from the g… --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/load-image-from-db-into-image-object/12309)._