Turning an animated .gif into a hyperlink

Report · Nov 08, 2010

Hey, Im completely new to the forum and was hoping someone could help me out.

I am making a banner for a website and created an animated .gif with 5 pictures that rotate. I would like it to become an active link so that if someone sees it as an advertisement on a website, they could click on it and have it redirect them to another website. Is this possible in photoshop cs5? If so, does anyone know how I do it?

Thanks!

Report · Nov 08, 2010

welcome!

this is a web design question. if you already have the animation finished, go to dreamweaver (or whatever you are building your website with) and put it in href tags that link to whatever website you want it to link to. you cannot specify it to be a link from photoshop. turning gifs (or jpgs, pngs, tiffs, whatever...) into links is done with HTML and HTML editing software.

Report · Nov 08, 2010

I thought I would be able to do it in photoshop....Well I guess i need to find someone with dreamweaver. Is dreamweaver easy to use?? never used it before

Report · Nov 08, 2010

you use photoshop to make the picture. but as far as linking things goes, that is what the html is for. dreamweaver is a tool for helping write html. if you do not know anything about html dreamweaver will be tough for you to figure out. you may be able to do some of the simple stuff by following tutorials online and stuff. linking a gif to a website is one of the easier things to do though so... maybe. basically if your gif is a banner;

in between the <head> and the </head> tags insert your .gif ( <img src="YOUR FILE NAME.gif") and then put the a href tags next to it. so that it looks like this;

<head>

</head>

but just to make sure you understand... this code goes in the coding for the website you are putting it in. it is not something that you can attach to the gif. basically you are attaching the gif to the link, not the link to the gif. so you have to have a website before linking anything (if that makes sense).

Report · Nov 08, 2010

thank you very much!!

Report · Nov 09, 2010

you are welcome. good luck!

Turning an animated .gif into a hyperlink

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