ImageMagick and GD are 2 of the most widespread graphic software libraries available on the market. They make the dynamic creation and editing of images and graphs on a site feasible, so they ought to be available on a web server if you host your websites on it and you want to have something different from static images with fixed dimensions. If ImageMagick and GD are present, you shall be able to edit any image in various ways - generate thumbnails, change the colors, flip it, blur it, etcetera. Naturally, these changes are doable if the script application that you employ on your site allows you to perform such things. The two libraries could be used with different website development languages - PHP, Python, Perl, etcetera., and support over 100 widely used image formats that you will be able to work with - PNG, PSD, JPEG, TIFF, GIF and many more.

ImageMagick and GD Library in Website Hosting

ImageMagick and GD Library are installed on our leading-edge cloud hosting platform, which means that no matter which of our Linux website hosting you acquire, both applications shall be available and activated as standard for your brand new account. They're a part of the software environment for your sites irrespective of the PHP version that you pick as we offer a number of different releases. Every custom or ready-made script application will be able to use the libraries in order to generate thumbnails of your images or graphs from simple text. Depending on the nature of your site, you can also provide a lot of options for your visitors - interactive galleries, real-time image modifying software on a social network site and many others.

ImageMagick and GD Library in Semi-dedicated Hosting

You'll be able to run any kind of script application which requires GD Library or ImageMagick to create graphs or work with images, because both are installed and activated as standard on the cloud hosting platform where all semi-dedicated server accounts are created. In case you change the PHP version for your account, you won't need to do anything to re-enable these libraries because they shall be available at all times. Thus, you'll have a lot of options in respect to what features both you and your website visitors will be able to employ, regardless if you write the site code yourself, you use one of our pre-installed script apps or you download and set up some application that you have found on the worldwide web. You're able to use all the widespread formats for the images which you upload.