Easy way to translate a Bitmap & Png to text AND BACK AGAIN in C#

Question

what is the easiest way to translate a Bitmap & Png to string AND BACK AGAIN. Ive been trying to do some saves through memory streams and such but i cant seem to get it to work!

Appearently i wasnt clear, what i want, is to be able to translate a Bitmap class, with an image in it.. into a system string. from there i want to be able to throw my string around for a bit, and then translate it back into a Bitmap to be displayed in a PictureBox.

Answer 1

From bitmap to string:

MemoryStream memoryStream = new MemoryStream();
bitmap.Save (memoryStream, ImageFormat.Png);
byte[] bitmapBytes = memoryStream.GetBuffer();
string bitmapString = Convert.ToBase64String(bitmapBytes, Base64FormattingOptions.InsertLineBreaks);

From string to image:

byte[] bitmapBytes = Convert.FromBase64String(bitmapString);
MemoryStream memoryStream = new MemoryStream(bitmapBytes);
Image image = Image.FromStream(memoryStream);

Answer 2

Based on @Peters answer (which contained some nasty syntax errors, and some code that can be optimized), I have come up with the correct solution to my problem:

        using (MemoryStream memoryStream = new MemoryStream())
        {
            image.Save(memoryStream, ImageFormat.Png); byte[] bitmapBytes = memoryStream.GetBuffer();
            string bitmapString = Convert.ToBase64String(bitmapBytes, Base64FormattingOptions.InsertLineBreaks);
        }

and

        Image img = null;
        byte[] bitmapBytes = Convert.FromBase64String(GradientOverlaySource);
        using (MemoryStream memoryStream = new MemoryStream(bitmapBytes))
        {
            img = Image.FromStream(memoryStream);
        }

Thanks peter! +1