# Best practices pls for image sharing & storage from anywhere in app

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An image column will show the rendered image, but it’s still just a url underneath. The database doesn’t store images. It just stores the location of those images. If you switch that column to a text column, you will see only the url. If you use that image column value in a template column for example, it’s still a url and will show you the url.

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