I see some kind of this images with adsense ads on many other sites. But I'm not sure mine is against adsense TOS or not. Somebody please help to take a look? Thanks. Link: http://www.hotcoding.com/geek/blog/200611/38766.html
I personally would not risk the images next to ads because i have GoogleBanAphobia.. At a minimum i think you need to have a vertical line running between your images and the ad.. I would also do some CTR comparison of before and after the images - if there is no significant increase in CTR with the images I would lose them..
I concur. i would put at least a fine line between the ads and the images. Google has started becoming more strict with image and ads blending.