ImageMagick and GD are 2 of the most widely used graphic software libraries available on the market. They make the dynamic creation and editing of images and graphs on a site doable, so they ought to be set up on a web server if you host your internet sites on it and you would like to have something different than static images with fixed dimensions. If ImageMagick and GD are installed, you will be able to edit any image in a variety of ways - create thumbnails, change the colors, flip it, blur it, and so on. Naturally, these adjustments are doable if the script app that you use on your internet site allows you to carry out such things. The two libraries can be used with different programming languages - PHP, Python, Perl, etc., and support over one hundred commonly used image formats that you'll be able to work with - PNG, PSD, JPEG, TIFF, GIF and many more.

ImageMagick and GD Library in Hosting

ImageMagick and GD Library are present on our advanced cloud web hosting platform, which means that regardless of which of our Linux hosting service you choose, both applications will be available and activated as standard for your new account. They'll be a part of the software setting for your sites whatever the PHP version that you pick because we provide a number of different versions. Any custom or ready-made script app can use the libraries to generate thumbnails of your images or graphs from simple text. According to the nature of your site, you will also be able to offer a wide range of solutions for your visitors - interactive galleries, live image editing software on a social network website and many more.

ImageMagick and GD Library in Semi-dedicated Servers

You can execute every script application that requires GD Library or ImageMagick to create graphs or use images, because both are installed and activated by default on the cloud hosting platform where all the semi-dedicated server accounts are created. Even if you switch the PHP version for your account, you will not need to do anything to re-enable these libraries because they'll be accessible all the time. Thus, you'll have a lot of options in respect to what features both you and your site visitors shall be able to employ, regardless of whether you're writing the site code yourself, you use one of our pre-installed script apps or you download and install some application that you've found on the worldwide web. You are able to employ all the sought-after formats for the images that you upload.