# Retrieve and Display a BLOB in Perspective

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/retrieve-and-display-a-blob-in-perspective/27114>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Created:** [August 2, 2019, 2:04pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/retrieve-and-display-a-blob-in-perspective/27114 "2019-08-02T14:04:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![jpark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a88e57/32.png) [@jpark](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/jpark)\
**Post date:** [August 2, 2019, 10:10pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/retrieve-and-display-a-blob-in-perspective/27114/5 "2019-08-02T22:10:42Z")

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If you don't have webdev you can do something like this.

> [@View Images from Database](http://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/view-images-from-database/22626):
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> Is there a way/will there be a way to directly display an image that is retrieved from a database? Right now the only way to display an image is by storing it in the gateway and specifying its path in a component. It would also be helpful to know how images will be stored when the future camera functionality is implemented.

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