Waaay OT Q for the Photoshop crowd

Is it possible to embed a hyperlink, i.e. website address into a photoshop image?

Is this possible or is the idea just sheer madness?

So you click on the link and your web browser goes there?

Would you want this to be image specific? Ie, no matter where the image is placed, the link is automatically embedded?

http://www.ehow.com/i/#article_5141900

tells I better than I ever could…

You can digitally watermark it, if thats what you are asking?

catflees link shows how to make an image map with Photoshop.. not the same thing as having a hyperlink in the image itself.

I doubt such a thing is possible, and if it were it’d be platform specific.

It’s a long time since I really did any serious Photoshop work, but I believe you might be able to do it with the image saved as a PDF file. Not entirely certain, needs a proper expert, really.

no

That link only works with CS2 and lower, I’m using CS4 Extended.

But just as catflees suggests you click on the link on the text in a picture and your default browser opens and takes you to the target that the link is pointing at.

why no just do it in html?

I’m still not sure of what the OP is after. Hyperlinks would exist in the webpage itself rather than the image. You can in theory make a .psd with a webaddress on it, then on a webpage you’ve built hyperlink that image to the original destination.

you could easily embed a hyperlink in the EXIF metadata of a JPG file, but the web page on which it was displayed would have to have code to pull it out and make it into a link…

What I’m trying to find out is if its possible to create an image file, with text on it, and when you hover your mouse over that text and click on it it opens up the browser on your computer.

I’m guessing this is not possible and a mad idea.

And how would you expect people to be viewing the image? Creating a link would surely need an application assigning to it (InDesign, a web browser, Word etc).

You could make a webpage that did that.

What I’m trying to find out is if its possible to create an image file

I think it might be possible in an SVG file, as the format supports embedded raster graphics, but I don’t know how this is done

No then not as a .psd, it’s the means of viewing the image that makes that possible. As Mr Grips said you can do that as a webpage. An image is an image.

Understood.

Thanks all – case closed.