Image storage?

I am building a site for a project where users can sign up. Now this means they also have a profile image and possibly a background image but I put a sample 60x60 profile image in the MySQL db and it will not print out. I was informed I should not used the db to store the image. What way should this be done?

Using ColdFusion but the basic principles are the same as other languages of course so any help at all is appreciated.

Thanks Einchi but one thing, What if a user uploads an image with the same name of one that is already up there?

I dont know in coldFusion but in i know in PHP. Just save image location in your server to Mysql. For example i have me.jpg, in my localhost field "location" and the value is c://windows/xampp/htdocs/image/me.jpg and then attach to your web page using your script that point image location from your database. In PHP works fine and dinamically can upload image to webpage dinamically.

good idea

As Einchi said, that's (in my opinion) the best way to handle this kind of things without the hassle of dealing with database images.

To avoid repetition I normally change the name of the image file before storing it on the server Hard Drive using the User ID and Username and a random number in order to set an unique name for the file.