I want to pull feeds from other sites and post them, making my blog automated.. also , i have just gotten into the blogging game... and was wondering what plugins you guys would suggest for all my blogs to have... but the main thing is, i want to learn how to set it up so that my blog pulls in feeds from other blogs and posts their new content etc
See google for a lot of wordpress aggregators. This is mostly the way of blog spammers and will not get you a lot of success long term.
I'm not planning on spamming etc.. also.. can you recommend one? i see a bunch but don't know which is the best... one that could also pull pictures from the posts would be ideal
Google does not like automated blogs and i think your site will not rank well doing this. Your site will also be duplicate content.