Affiliate Marketing Secrets

Ok this is my question:
I have downloaded a picture from an affiliate site I’m an affiliate of and I want to insert it into the widgets section, but I also want to add my affiliate link.
What would the html code look like?
Normally my affiliate links are allready in html with the aff link imbedded, but this time I have the picture which is seperate.
Regards
Paul

this little question noone has been able to CLEARLY answer. I am creating a blog where I take pics from different clothing sites and post them together for ppl to “get the look”. I have also looked into store affiliate programs, not sure if i wanna do that just yet.
my question is, How can i have these pictures posted where I dont get in legal trouble? Do I have to contact each site individually and ask permission to use each and every pic? Fashion for the most part is time sensitive information so I dont wanna have to wait until something is no longer in season before I get permission to use a pic because I am not in a location where I can go to more stores or fashion shows.
I would appreciate if someone gave me a straight answer or send me somewhere that I can get answers to help me.

To a promotion, you, their blinding client,
The eyes that caught your look desired to lever;
Still, on one market we were not reliant,
And where the world is good we chide it never.
Instead we redeployed the whole division
Till second sight became our secret sauce;
The body’s heart thus beat with corporate vision,
And minting prophecy, was blindness boss.
Blind eyes yet dread a public exit’s roadshow;
Dead spheres, therefore, make bankers’ living sight
Returns betokening not IPO:
We’re always unreceptive and polite.
Yet cash flow little salves that corporate soul
Which burns to sell at last and cede control.

I’ve recently registered a sweet domain name that I’m going to use to launch a site that gives readers free coupons, samples, etc.
The last thing I want to do with this site though is be forced to fill it full of affiliate marketing and things like ‘Get a FREE Apple iPhone’
I’ve taken a look at a number of similar sites and my question to the community is: where do these sites find their content? They seem to have legit deals, offers, giveaways, coupons etc from reputable businesses. Is there a directory where companies go to list all of these deals and offers?
As I mentioned, I’m not interested in turning this new site into a SPAM-ATHON so if anyone out there knows if there is a place(s) where a publisher can find these types of offers and then post them to their site, i’d be forever grateful.
(Note: I know there are a number of these sites around already but I’m having a crack anyway :P)
I’m really looking forward to some of your insights 🙂
Thanks!

This is the first chapter of my book “The Tree of Light.” Please tell me what you think. This is a rough draft so the spelling and grammar may not be perfect. Also, if you have any suggestions for name changes or a different title, I’d appreciate it!
Inside the cave, it was darker than any dark Avniel had ever seen. Being an outlaw who had a price on his head, Avniel had hidden in some pretty strange and dark places before. This place, however, was different from any other, and that wasn’t a good thing. Soon the pack of bounty hunters would pass, and he would leave.
Avniel was on his way to Astasia, a nearby city full of secrets. The city was guarded by the most fool-proof system anywhere: a tree. This tree, however, was no ordinary tree. All the legends claimed that it had been fashioned from pure moon-beams and golden sunlight. It was called the Tree of Light and it kept all evil away from Astasia’s golden gates.
Avniel chanced a look out of the mouth of the cave that he crouched in, and saw about four or five men on horseback. They all had cruel, hard faces and wicked looking swords and knives strapped onto their backs. They were talking and joking loudly among themselves. As Avniel’s keen eyes regarded the men, one man, with a huge red beard, snatched another’s canteen and gulped down the entire contents. The victim, a scraggly, scrawny man, angrily began speaking very rapidly in a language Avniel did not know, then pulled a wickedly gleaming knife from his belt and held it above the thief’s chest. The man grunted and tossed the canteen back to the furious owner, who stalked away, muttering under his breath and shooting angry looks at the thief.
Avniel’s eyes left the scene and traveled to the front of the surly group. When the outlaw’s eyes fell upon a thin, rough looking man, with long grey streaked hair, beetle-black eyes and an evil, crooked smile on his unshaven face, he gasped and sank back into the shadows of the cave, flattening himself against the wall, staying stock still.
“No”, he hissed under his breath.
“He can’t be here. All the way from Argon, he can’t be that desperate. Why would Daniel Salzar come all this way just for me?” Breathing deeply, Avniel peered around the edge of the cave once more. Salzar was looking away, but Avniel still knew that it was him, just from the greasy black hair hanging past his shoulders and the stooped, lazy way in which he walked and rode. Daniel Salzar would do anything to get hold of Avniel and bring him to Argon, dead or alive. However, Avniel had out-witted Salzar many too many times now, and Salzar’s grudge against the outlaw was getting more and more personal. Suddenly, the skinny man turned, and his deathly black eyes seemed to lock with Avniel’s. Avniel jolted backwards with fright and his head hit a rock. The walls and ceiling of the cave spun around him as whispered, hissing words seemed to fill his mind,
“The tree, I want the tree.” Then, everything went black.
On the same day of Avniel’s misadventure in the cave, a traveler named Barrett walked through the gates of Astasia. It was a market day; the bustling hordes of villagers gave this away. Barrett sighed wearily; he would get something to eat before he tried to do the business that he came here for.
A plump lady with fiery red hair noticed the tall stranger before he saw her. He was thin and had curly dark brown hair, and chocolate brown eyes. He had an intelligent look to him, and his eyes sparkled mischievously. Any other woman would have thought him handsome, but Aaliyah Reevin wasn’t thinking about looks at all when she spotted him. Now he had noticed her and was coming over. Quickly, Aaliyah threw her shawl around her face, and held it tightly there, so only her hard, grey eyes showed. The man, it was Barrett Hale, she knew it, peered at her curiously as if he had seen her before. Then, shaking his head, he walked off into the merry crowd, leaving a bewildered and angry Aaliyah behind him.
Barrett shook his head. He was sure that he’d seen her, but why would she be here? That woman that he’d passed had the same cruel grey eyes, the same countenance, as Aaliyah Reevin. He thought that he even saw a wisp of wiry orange hair, but, it just didn’t make sense. Barrett shook his curly head once more and stalked off towards the castle.