By tranzparency on

I'm trying to figure out where a module's admin (preference) settings are stored. I was playing around with the image module, but could figure out where it stores the values. I can't find them in the database. Does Drupal write them to the module file itself? If not where do these values get stored?

So when I develop my own module and I have some preferences that needed changing, where should I have them stored for that specific module?

thanks