How to insert hyperlinks in Photoshop for PDF

How to insert hyperlinks in Photoshop for PDF
Easy steps to hyperlink text for website or email using the Slice Tool in Photoshop. Great way to have customers contact you when sending online PDF Magazines.

Use Photoshop to Hyperlink your website or email for an Online PDF.

[johnwoo]

So I followed the tutorial step by step. I sliced my website text, filled in my URl, created a PDF Presentation (saving as a PDF Presentation and then as a Multi-Page Document); but neither seemed to work.

So tried Preserve Photoshop Capabilities, then tried Optimize For Fast Web Preview, the even tried with each of the resolutions from Highest to Lowest. Still hyperlinks do not convert over to PDF viewers, only retain information if opening the PDF in Photoshop.

So this tutorial doesn't seem to work - I might have to invest in a PDF Editing Software :(

[mariusboyeau]

I struggled all the day on this problem. I did my CV on photoshop and wanted to add a link to my portfolio on it as a PDF that we can open in a navigator (firefox, chrome, edge...). It never worked. My guess is the link work from acrobat but not through a navigator.
My advice : if it don't work, like for me, give up adding the link with Photoshop.

1) In Photoshop, save your document as pdf extra quality jpeg compression maximum, it's really important, not jpeg.

2) Then open Indesign, create a document with the wanted size, then put your pdf in it.

3) Use the hyperlink option, it's really simple with Indesign.

4) Export.

5) Open your pdf in a navigator, the quality should be PDF like, that's why i told you not save in photoshop as jpeg.

6) Give Photoshop some middle fingers cause it might took you hours like me to finally understand HE CAN'T DO THIS SIMPLE THING !

[osvaldocristo]

Thank you... but it didn´t work for me. I also have CC2020 and I followed carefully your steps but when I open the document I do not get the link or the small hand to click on, I cannot figure out what is happening. I gave up...

[jmms]

Thanks for the tutorial! And for anyone having issues with the links only working with the full URL, something that you could do is make the parts of the URL that you don't want to show be tiny (1pt, less than that didn't work) and same color as the background. That way you sort of hide it. Worked for me at least

[MrRepMite]

*[2022] SIMPLE SOLUTION FOR THOSE THAT COULDN'T MAKE THIS WORK (me included)*
*_its not 100% cause it only works for -10MB pdfs and also you cant make the link open in a new tab, but if these are not problems for you, this will work perfectly_*

so after I've finished my work:

> I clicked to save my file
> then I selected the format "photoshop pdf" on the list and clicked to save it
> after that a dialog opened and I unchecked the first box that said "Preserve Photoshop Editing Capabilities" and clicked to save again
> then I went to this website tool called "PDF Escape" and registered to it
> clicked on the "Free online" button
> uploaded my pdf
> added the hyperlinks and then saved it again

then I got my hyperlinks working just fine :) hope this works for you guys.

[HealingLightEmpath]

What do I do when this doesn't work? I opened it in Preview and there's no link. It looks correct in Photoshop, exactly as you have it here, but when I open the PDF it's not there.

[xXxdamonstaxXx]

Yeah, for those of you who are having issues with the website, for some reason, the last version of Photoshop requires you to type the exact URL in the text you are trying to hyperlink.

[studiofreyja]

UPDATE: It seems with the newer version of PS this is no longer a correct way to do it. Unfortunately the updates seems to have removed the ability to use the slice tool to create a hyperlink in PS. This still works for older versions.

[rohandsouza]

It doesn't work through photoshop, so i re did it on canva and it was super easy to add the links and export. It works perfectly now

[MrSleeper]

Juste a quick head's up about this tutorial : it doesn't work.
What happens is that the pdf reader used is detecting automatically the written email and website, and adding on the fly hyperlink to it.
That's why for this method to "work" you have to write exactly the email and the website inside the text layer.
Of course depending on the pdf reader used, the automatical detection will occur or not. For example it does work when using Adob Acrobat Reader DC, but won't work when reading the pdf using Chrome.

[BorisNikolaiKonrad]

Thought I found what I needed, but sadly does not work. :-(
Adobe Photoshop CC 2019, even when I go to automate PDF Presentation, the link does not end up in the file.

[peterfredriksson]

Hi! I see that some people are having trouble making this work and unfortunately so do I. I followed your steps, I copied a link to a google drive folder, it is clickable if I save the file as an HTML file but when I export it as a pdf presentation the link is no longer clickable. I use Ps 2020. Would really appreciate some help here! :)

[ericianwalters]

I love quick tutorials like this; saved my butt twice now, thank you! 😄👍

[manindhravarma]

I followed the exact same process and I didn't get the result.

[akanksha]

I followed this tutorial exactly as is and it didn't work for my file. What did work for me was slicing my file, adding the links as per this tutorial and then saving my work as a JPEG file. I then converted my file from JPEG to PDF on an online PDF converter and could then open both links easily! Thanks for this video though x

[vqvlseo]

tank you so so much. quick and straight to the point.

[ArjunPaneri]

Big thanks, no other video explained that this tool will work if you add a website URL.

[degreeseeker]

Thank you sooo much! Your video literally saved me! I couldn't figure out how to do it and I watched other videos, but yours was the one that actually made it work!

[cliffordrogers]

Wow thank I'm still learning this is a good video to learn from

[MTxo]

Hi thanks a lot for this video.. one problem i am facing is i am not able to create hyperlink for 2nd text on same page.. doing same steps as shown.. but its not can u pls suggest will be a help