external url option for image

Im just going over some old core issues and trying to close them.

If you want the image uploaded to your site, but linked to an external url, there are many ways to achieve this.

For example, you could use Field Collection module to create a field that contains an image and a url field. You can then create a view or some other display method to output the image wrapped in the url field.

Or you can make/find a module that adds an extra property to images for URL, and modify the output in a similar fashion.