ImageMagick and GD are two of the most frequently used graphic software libraries available on the market. They make the dynamic creation and editing of images and graphs on a site possible, so they ought to be present on a server if you host your sites on it and you want to have something different than static images with fixed dimensions. If ImageMagick and GD are present, you shall be able to edit any image in many ways - generate thumbnails, change the colors, flip it, blur it, etc. Naturally, these adjustments are possible if the script application which you employ on your internet site allows you to do such things. The two libraries can easily be used with various website development languages - PHP, Python, Perl, and so on., and support over a hundred popular image formats that you shall be able to work with - PNG, PSD, JPEG, TIFF, GIF and more.
ImageMagick and GD Library in Shared Website Hosting
ImageMagick and GD Library are set up on our advanced cloud web hosting platform, therefore no matter which of our shared website hosting you acquire, both applications will be available and activated as standard for your new account. They are part of the software environment for your websites regardless of the PHP version that you pick as we supply several different releases. Any custom or ready-made script application can use the libraries to generate thumbnails of your images or graphs from simple text. According to the type of your site, you will also be able to offer lots of options for your visitors - interactive galleries, live image editing software on a social network website and so on.
ImageMagick and GD Library in Semi-dedicated Servers
You will be able to run every script application which requires GD Library or ImageMagick to make charts or work with images, as both are set up and enabled as standard on the cloud web hosting platform where all semi-dedicated server accounts are created. Even if you get new PHP version for your account, you will not need to do anything in order to re-enable these libraries because they will be accessible all the time. In this way, you will have lots of alternatives in respect to what functions both you and your site visitors will be able to employ, no matter if you're writing the website code yourself, you use one of our pre-installed script applications or you download and install some application which you have discovered on the Internet. You'll be able to employ all of the popular formats for the pictures which you upload.