ImageMagick and GD are 2 of the most widespread graphic software libraries out there. They make the dynamic creation and editing of images and graphs on a site possible, so they need to be present on a server if you host your sites on it and you prefer to have something different from static images with fixed dimensions. If ImageMagick and GD are set up, you will be able to edit any image in various ways - create thumbnails, change the colors, flip it, blur it, etcetera. Needless to say, these adjustments are possible if the script app that you use on your internet site enables you to do such things. The 2 libraries could be used with numerous web development languages - PHP, Python, Perl, etcetera., and support more than one hundred commonly used image formats that you shall be able to work with - PNG, PSD, JPEG, TIFF, GIF and others.

ImageMagick and GD Library in Cloud Website Hosting

Both ImageMagick and GD Library are present and enabled as standard on our state-of-the-art cloud hosting platform, so your scripts can use them regardless of the cloud website hosting plan that you select when you register. This will help you set up multimedia sites without having to worry about any tech restrictions on our end. If you own a portfolio site, for instance, you can have dynamically generated thumbnails of the images that show your work, while if you've got a social network or a similar website that engages your guests in some way, you're able to provide them with a number of editing solutions for the photos which they upload. Also, you can convert text to pictures, which gives you numerous opportunities with regards to what content you're able to offer on the website.

ImageMagick and GD Library in Semi-dedicated Servers

You can run any kind of script application which requires GD Library or ImageMagick to create charts or use images, as both are installed and enabled by default on the cloud hosting platform where all semi-dedicated server accounts are created. In case you switch the PHP version for your account, you won't have to do anything in order to re-enable these libraries as they shall be accessible all the time. In this way, you've got many alternatives in respect to what features both you and your website visitors can employ, regardless if you write the website code yourself, you use one of our pre-installed script applications or you download and set up some application that you've discovered on the web. You can employ all of the widespread formats for the pictures that you upload.