What is the best way to work with images?

Question

ASP.NET

Suppose the user can upload an image to the server. How to work with them most efficiently (save to the database, compress, etc.)?

Answer 1

Well you convert in a bit format and you save in a DB. Not to be stored entirely

Answer 2

Images can be saved as they were loaded, or some processing (reducing resolution, quality, etc.) can be done asynchronously.
Images can be placed in some local storage available for serving by your web server (Nginx, lighttpd, Apache httpd), or uploaded to a remote server (Amazon S3) with subsequent access via CDN (Amazon CloudFront).
The application must "know" (i.e. store in the database) which path to save and store the URL for which images will be available from the outside.