How to add a link to an image in Google Mail / Gmail

Placing links directly onto images in Gmails doesn't seem to work. Here is a way around it.
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[@user-jd8or2lk3v]

you saved my fucking life. Thank you

[@floriobe]

Brilliant. I was stuck and this helped! Many thanks

[@kaleighwoodard3268]

If you click and drag over your photo in Gmail to highlight it in blue before adding your link (as opposed to just clicking the photo), that will solve your problem.

[@carlarrowsmith811]

Doesn't work for just an image, it applies a link of the picture itself. If you select more than the image it will work but then the spaces either side will become a link too.

[@pax-tr4inright]

Thank you!

[@BadTVandMovieClipsFairUse]

Good tutorial.