Image field clarification

I read the documentation and browsed the posts in the forums. Confused exactly how to make images work. One spot said the image name must be the same as the ID. Another said it has to be a blob field. Another said you can do this:

<img src="{joodb field|YOURIMAGEFIELD}" style="max-width: 320px; max-height: 280px;" alt="*">

Which looks like just a normal link. I tried the last option first and in catalog view it does nothing, no image holder, broken link, just acts like its not there. I have 5000 books and 1000 have images so far. Trying to see if this will work out of the gate.

libraent wrote: <img src="{joodb field|YOURIMAGEFIELD}" style="max-width: 320px; max-height: 280px;" alt="*">

The correct command is {joodb path2image} and {joodb path2thumb}
But only is you use the built in uplaad function.

libraent wrote: Which looks like just a normal link. I tried the last option first and in catalog view it does nothing, no image holder, broken link, just acts like its not there. I have 5000 books and 1000 have images so far. Trying to see if this will work out of the gate.

Have you ever tried to use
{joodb thumb} and {joodb image}

This will diplay the complete image and thumbnail. But only is you use the built in uplaad function.

Alternatively you declare an image field as in the example database.