Hi staple

I'm not sure I totally understand you question.

There are a couple of ways to add images in your tempalte, the most common being;

$Image - this will add a complete image HTML like <img src="myImage.jpg" alt="Image name" >

$Image.URL - this will return the URL so that you can use your own tag like so: <img id="img" src="$Image.URL" alt="some proper text" >

you can also resize images in the template:

$Image.SetWidth(100)

Unfortunately you cant then add .URL on the end, so if you want to resize and only use a url then you need to do somthing like this:

<% control Image %>
<% control CroppedImage(100,100) %>
<img src="$URL" alt="some text" >
<% end_control %>
<% end_control %>

Hope that helps

If the image is part of your template, you can call it like Aram said, only use the $ThemeDir global var to refer to the current theme directory. If the image is part of the model, however, you can call it using its fieldname.. e.g. $MyImage, which will render an image tag for you. Otherwise, for a custom tag, you can do img src="$MyImage.URL" alt="" etc...

Helpers, despite all their admirable attempts to streamline development, break the MVC pattern and should be avoided when possible.