ImageMagick and GD are two of the most widespread graphic software libraries available on the market. They make the dynamic creation and editing of images and graphs on an internet site doable, so they ought to be installed on a server if you host your websites on it and you would want to have something different than static images with fixed dimensions. If ImageMagick and GD are installed, you will be able to edit any image in various ways - generate thumbnails, change the colors, flip it, blur it, and so on. Needless to say, these changes are doable 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, etc., and support over 100 frequently used image formats which you'll be able to work with - PNG, PSD, JPEG, TIFF, GIF and many others.

ImageMagick and GD Library in Website Hosting

Both ImageMagick and GD Library can be found and activated as standard on our cutting-edge cloud web hosting platform, which means that your scripts will be able to use them whatever the Linux website hosting that you select when you join us. This will allow you to create interactive websites without having to worry about any kind of tech limitations on our end. When you have a portfolio website, for example, you can have dynamically generated thumbnails of the images that show your work, while if you've got a social network or a similar site which engages your visitors in some way, you can offer them a variety of editing solutions for the photos that they upload. You can also convert text to images, which provides you with numerous opportunities with regards to what content you're able to offer on your site.

ImageMagick and GD Library in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Both ImageMagick and GD Library are available on the cloud hosting platform where your new semi-dedicated server account shall be set up, so you'll be able to take advantage of the full features of any script application which needs any of these two libraries to manage images, such as Joomla™, WordPress, photo galleries, discussion forums, and the like. If you are a web developer, you can write the program code yourself since we also support a lot of programming languages PHP and Python are among them. To offer you even more options with regards to what kind of apps you are able to run, we support a number of different PHP versions - 4, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 5.5, 5.6, 7.0, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 8.0, 8.1, 8.2. GD and ImageMagick are enabled for all of them, which means that the software environment on the servers won't limit your choice in terms of the types of sites which you can have.