# Receiving and storing pictures

**URL:** https://community.thunkable.com/t/receiving-and-storing-pictures/1710149
**Category:** Questions about Thunkable X
**Created:** [February 1, 2022, 9:54pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/receiving-and-storing-pictures/1710149 "2022-02-01T21:54:10Z")
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### Author: ![muneer](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/muneer/32/75210_2.png) [@muneer](https://community.thunkable.com/u/muneer)
#### Post date: [February 2, 2022, 7:35pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/receiving-and-storing-pictures/1710149/6 "2022-02-02T19:35:02Z")

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> [@lavrynenko](#):
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> Is it possible with the method you described to implement:

Yes,  
I just made a sample demo for another member to read the file from user’s device and convert it to Base64 string.

See the demo in this post

> [@Upload images to Cloudinary using Web Api, only,](https://community.thunkable.com/t/upload-images-to-cloudinary-using-web-api-only/1701875/9):
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> When you have the Base64 string and you store it in any kind of storage then viewing it is as simple as retrieving the string and assigning it to an image component because it accepts Base64 directly to be the image to display. This way, you store the Base64 in the table and you do not need to convert it to image again. I made a quick demo for you. See this project [https://x.thunkable.com/projectPage/61f68431c3761001dba12df1](https://x.thunkable.com/projectPage/61f68431c3761001dba12df1) In this demo it just reads the Base64 and assign it to an image a…

This is another demo to save `Canvas` image to Google drive  
[https://x.thunkable.com/projectPage/618cfa678cdb0f0011998dbe](https://x.thunkable.com/projectPage/618cfa678cdb0f0011998dbe)

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