Avatars are not allowed here at this time. (for those not familiar with avatars, they are an image that often sits on the left, by your name....something you can personalize)
Signatures images, however, *are* allowed, and that's what we prefer, is for images to be in the signature area instead. They are posted pretty much the same way as regular post pictures, so once you learn one method, it works in both places. Here is the how-to on posting pictures we added some time ago:
http://forum.poodleroom.com/index.php/topic,70.0.htmlThat should get you through the basics. But if you have any problems or need any help with doing pictures in posts or signatures, just let me know and I'll help as I can. Please note...there are some limits on signature pic sizes, so if you keep them in line with what others of us have done here, you should be fine. But, again, just let me know if you have any problems and I'll do what I can to help.