[Plugin: NextGEN Gallery] How Do I add custom hyperlinks to images in a gallery

I am using the latest version of NextGen Gallery and WordPress.

I am trying to add customized hyperlinks to indvidual images in a gallery.

For example, for each image in a gallery, I want to provide a clickable Photobucket url for downloading a high resolution version of the image. See the gallery at the bottom of http://www.techtangerine.com/design/

I can of course put the link into the description. But it is not clickable. I have tried using all sorts of HTML tags etc but that does not work either.

I know there are some complicated hacks out there which involve using NextGen Gallery Custom Fields and adding some code to the NextGen Gallery core files (whih is lost when the plugin is updated).

But honestly, isn’t there a simpler way to add hyperlinks to images?

If there isn’t, I hope the plugin author (Alex Rabe) will take this as a feature request.