IMessage using avatar from iCloud account versus iMessage account

Have 2 iPads in the house, my wife's and mine. Sharing a single iCloud under a single apple ID, but logging into iMessage under separate apple ID so we can message each other. All of this works....however, "self" avatar displayed in iMessage is the same for both iPads (my wife) apparently pulled from contact matching the the iCloud sign-in email address versus the iMessage account. When I message my wife from my iPad the to and from avatars are both the same picture of my wife...even though my contact matches the iMessage account on my iPad and has my picture associated.

Having the same problem. Wife and I have a shared iCloud account for Contacts and Calendars. We also have two distinct iCloud accounts for iMessage, and iMessage is signed into each of them on our appropriate devices. Yet when we send messages to each other, the photo avatar is the same for both ends of the conversation. Photos are assigend correctly in Contacts. Not sure why this would happen. Must be some strange bug that hopefully will be fixed.

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{quote:title=Nissin101 wrote @ 3:36pm EMT:}{quote}
Well I was able to move photos from the camera roll to the photo library by sending *the pictures via email to my dad's blackberry, then saving them to my computer from his phone, then putting them back on into the photo library*.
This is what I said originally.
{quote:title=Nissin101 wrote @ 4:08pm EMT:}{quote}
Alright I guess that answers my question then. However, just as I said I was able to transfer photos from my camera roll to my photo library, so at least that is possible.
I never said that I did it directly, neither did I mean to imply that I was looking for a direct solution. This I guess is where our misunderstanding comes from. I just did not feel like repeating the whole process I went through. Regardless, I would rather this thread not derail into who said what and whose misunderstanding who. I now know that it is not possible to get pictures from the photo library to the camera roll in any way, so my question is answered for now at least.

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