1. A method of providing a customized image within a personal electronic communication, said method comprising: creating at least one image tag containing reference information to a dynamic image server; embedding one or more image tags into the personal electronic communication; transmitting the personal electronic communication to one or more recipients; parsing the personal electronic communication to identify all image tags embedded therein; requesting a dynamically generated image from the dynamic image server identified by the reference information for each identified image tag; generating the dynamically generated image using the dynamic image server; and returning the dynamically generated image from the dynamic image server to the recipient.