Elliot,
Could you please elaborate on the “GF saves a URL instead of a link”?
If i pass a text field with the value…
<img src="http://website.com/image.jpg">
… instead of …
http://website.com/image.jpg
…would that do the trick? Because I’m having no luck with that.
Gravity forms has a hook called a pre_form_submission that can manipulate the value being sent through the form. I just need to know what the variable that I’m posting to the field should be in order for ACF to pick up the image upon GF submission.