ImageMagick and GD are 2 of the most frequently used graphic software libraries on the market. They make the dynamic creation and editing of images and graphs on a site possible, so they need to be set up on a server if you host your websites on it and you would want to have something different from static images with fixed dimensions. If ImageMagick and GD are installed, you will be able to edit any image in many different ways - create thumbnails, change the colors, flip it, blur it, etc. However, these adjustments are feasible if the script application that you employ on your internet site allows you to do such things. The 2 libraries can be used with a lot of web development languages - PHP, Python, Perl, etcetera., and support more than one hundred widely used image formats which you'll be able to work with - PNG, PSD, JPEG, TIFF, GIF and others.

ImageMagick and GD Library in Website Hosting

Both ImageMagick and GD Library can be found and activated by default on our innovative cloud website hosting platform, so your scripts will be able to use them regardless of the website hosting that you select when you register. This will help you build multimedia sites without worrying about any kind of technical limitations on our end. If you have a portfolio site, for instance, you can have dynamically generated thumbnails of the pictures which show your work, while if you have a social network or a similar site that engages the guests in some way, you can provide them with a variety of editing options for the photographs which they upload. Also, you can convert text to pictures, which will give you quite a lot of opportunities regarding what content you will be able to offer on your website.

ImageMagick and GD Library in Semi-dedicated Servers

You can run any script application that requires GD Library or ImageMagick to generate graphs or use images, since both are set up and activated by default on the cloud web hosting platform where all the semi-dedicated server accounts are created. Even if you switch the PHP version for your account, you won't need to do anything in order to re-enable these libraries because they shall be accessible all the time. In this way, you've got a number of alternatives in respect to what features you and your site visitors shall be able to use, regardless if you write the website code yourself, you employ one of our pre-installed script apps or you download and install some application that you have found on the worldwide web. You will be able to employ all sought-after formats for the photos which you upload.