diff --git a/app/MindWork AI Studio/Chat/ContentImage.cs b/app/MindWork AI Studio/Chat/ContentImage.cs
index 997e9987..9f09e87c 100644
--- a/app/MindWork AI Studio/Chat/ContentImage.cs	
+++ b/app/MindWork AI Studio/Chat/ContentImage.cs	
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ namespace AIStudio.Chat;
 /// <summary>
 /// Represents an image inside the chat.
 /// </summary>
-public sealed class ContentImage : IContent
+public sealed class ContentImage : IContent, IImageSource
 {
     #region Implementation of IContent
 
@@ -47,62 +47,4 @@ public sealed class ContentImage : IContent
     /// The image source.
     /// </summary>
     public required string Source { get; set; }
-
-    /// <summary>
-    /// Read the image content as a base64 string.
-    /// </summary>
-    /// <remarks>
-    /// The images are directly converted to base64 strings. The maximum
-    /// size of the image is around 10 MB. If the image is larger, the method
-    /// returns an empty string.
-    ///
-    /// As of now, this method does no sort of image processing. LLMs usually
-    /// do not work with arbitrary image sizes. In the future, we might have
-    /// to resize the images before sending them to the model.
-    /// </remarks>
-    /// <param name="token">The cancellation token.</param>
-    /// <returns>The image content as a base64 string; might be empty.</returns>
-    public async Task<string> AsBase64(CancellationToken token = default)
-    {
-        switch (this.SourceType)
-        {
-            case ContentImageSource.BASE64:
-                return this.Source;
-            
-            case ContentImageSource.URL:
-            {
-                using var httpClient = new HttpClient();
-                using var response = await httpClient.GetAsync(this.Source, HttpCompletionOption.ResponseHeadersRead, token);
-                if(response.IsSuccessStatusCode)
-                {
-                    // Read the length of the content:
-                    var lengthBytes = response.Content.Headers.ContentLength;
-                    if(lengthBytes > 10_000_000)
-                        return string.Empty;
-                    
-                    var bytes = await response.Content.ReadAsByteArrayAsync(token);
-                    return Convert.ToBase64String(bytes);
-                }
-
-                return string.Empty;
-            }
-
-            case ContentImageSource.LOCAL_PATH:
-                if(File.Exists(this.Source))
-                {
-                    // Read the content length:
-                    var length = new FileInfo(this.Source).Length;
-                    if(length > 10_000_000)
-                        return string.Empty;
-                    
-                    var bytes = await File.ReadAllBytesAsync(this.Source, token);
-                    return Convert.ToBase64String(bytes);
-                }
-
-                return string.Empty;
-            
-            default:
-                return string.Empty;
-        }
-    }
 }
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diff --git a/app/MindWork AI Studio/Chat/IImageSource.cs b/app/MindWork AI Studio/Chat/IImageSource.cs
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..1931630f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app/MindWork AI Studio/Chat/IImageSource.cs	
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+namespace AIStudio.Chat;
+
+public interface IImageSource
+{
+    /// <summary>
+    /// The type of the image source.
+    /// </summary>
+    /// <remarks>
+    /// Is the image source a URL, a local file path, a base64 string, etc.?
+    /// </remarks>
+    public ContentImageSource SourceType { get; init; }
+
+    /// <summary>
+    /// The image source.
+    /// </summary>
+    public string Source { get; set; }
+}
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diff --git a/app/MindWork AI Studio/Chat/IImageSourceExtensions.cs b/app/MindWork AI Studio/Chat/IImageSourceExtensions.cs
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..836df531
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app/MindWork AI Studio/Chat/IImageSourceExtensions.cs	
@@ -0,0 +1,63 @@
+namespace AIStudio.Chat;
+
+public static class IImageSourceExtensions
+{
+    /// <summary>
+    /// Read the image content as a base64 string.
+    /// </summary>
+    /// <remarks>
+    /// The images are directly converted to base64 strings. The maximum
+    /// size of the image is around 10 MB. If the image is larger, the method
+    /// returns an empty string.
+    /// 
+    /// As of now, this method does no sort of image processing. LLMs usually
+    /// do not work with arbitrary image sizes. In the future, we might have
+    /// to resize the images before sending them to the model.
+    /// </remarks>
+    /// <param name="image">The image source.</param>
+    /// <param name="token">The cancellation token.</param>
+    /// <returns>The image content as a base64 string; might be empty.</returns>
+    public static async Task<string> AsBase64(this IImageSource image, CancellationToken token = default)
+    {
+        switch (image.SourceType)
+        {
+            case ContentImageSource.BASE64:
+                return image.Source;
+            
+            case ContentImageSource.URL:
+            {
+                using var httpClient = new HttpClient();
+                using var response = await httpClient.GetAsync(image.Source, HttpCompletionOption.ResponseHeadersRead, token);
+                if(response.IsSuccessStatusCode)
+                {
+                    // Read the length of the content:
+                    var lengthBytes = response.Content.Headers.ContentLength;
+                    if(lengthBytes > 10_000_000)
+                        return string.Empty;
+                    
+                    var bytes = await response.Content.ReadAsByteArrayAsync(token);
+                    return Convert.ToBase64String(bytes);
+                }
+
+                return string.Empty;
+            }
+
+            case ContentImageSource.LOCAL_PATH:
+                if(File.Exists(image.Source))
+                {
+                    // Read the content length:
+                    var length = new FileInfo(image.Source).Length;
+                    if(length > 10_000_000)
+                        return string.Empty;
+                    
+                    var bytes = await File.ReadAllBytesAsync(image.Source, token);
+                    return Convert.ToBase64String(bytes);
+                }
+
+                return string.Empty;
+            
+            default:
+                return string.Empty;
+        }
+    }
+}
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