Using Images in Power View, PowerPivot and Tabular Models

A colleague demonstrated what using images can do to make Power View really stand out yesterday. I was aware of this functionality but hadn't seen it in use before, and we had a bit of a hunt around together in order to get it to work from a PowerPivot model so I thought I'd put together this guide.

There are two ways in which Power View can retrieve and display an image: from a URL reference and from a BLOB object in a database. I'll cover both of them, starting with using a URL to an existing image.