ImageMagick and GD are two of the most widely used graphic software libraries nowadays. They make the dynamic creation and editing of images and graphs on a site possible, so they ought to be installed on a server if you host your sites on it and you want to have something different from static images with fixed dimensions. If ImageMagick and GD are installed, you'll be able to edit any image in many different ways - generate thumbnails, change the colors, flip it, blur it, and so on. Of course, these adjustments are doable if the script application which you use on your internet site permits you to perform such things. The two libraries could be used with a lot of programming languages - PHP, Python, Perl, etc., and support more than a hundred popular image formats that you shall be able to work with - PNG, PSD, JPEG, TIFF, GIF and others.

ImageMagick and GD Library in Web Hosting

Both ImageMagick and GD Library are present and enabled by default on our revolutionary cloud hosting platform, so your scripts can use them irrespective of the Linux web hosting that you select when you register. This will allow you to build multimedia sites without having to worry about any kind of tech limitations on our end. When you own a portfolio website, for instance, you can have dynamically generated thumbnails of the images which show your work, while if you have a social network or a similar site that engages the visitors in some way, you'll be able to provide them with various editing options for the pictures which they upload. You can also convert text to images, that gives you a number of opportunities with regards to what content you're able to offer on the website.

ImageMagick and GD Library in Semi-dedicated Servers

You will be able to run any kind of script application that requires GD Library or ImageMagick to generate charts or use images, because both are installed and activated as standard on the cloud website hosting platform where all of the semi-dedicated server accounts are created. Even if you get new PHP version for your account, you will not have to do anything to re-enable these libraries because they shall be accessible all of the time. Thus, you have many options in respect to what functions both you and your website visitors will be able to use, no matter if you are writing the site code yourself, you employ one of our pre-installed script applications or you download and install some app that you have discovered on the Internet. You are able to employ all of the sought-after formats for the photos which you upload.