.NET does have an entire set of classes devoted to on the fly image generation/manipulation/etc (System.Drawing) and its a fairly straight forward process however, as Matt pointed out, this ability does not exist in Classic. I agree that you would be better off spending the $50 to purchase a third party component and save yourself a great deal of headaches.
In so far as your alerts, you want these to be sent from a web page?
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