"R. S. Patil" wrote:

>
> Dear Friends,
>
> I want to paste from clipboard a Image in a TImage Component
> and store that image
> in JPEG format to a blob field. the image quality
> requirements are not high so any
> other size friendly image formats can also do the job. JPEG
> format has been selected
> since native TJPEGImage is easily available. If u have some
> other alternative

Hi,

have a look at the TIB_Image component.
There are various method to handle images, e.g.
IB_Image1.PasteFromClipboard, IB_Image1.LoadPicture ..

Harald