ImageMagick and GD are two 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 doable, so they should be present on a server if you host your internet sites on it and you want to have something different from static images with fixed dimensions. If ImageMagick and GD are present, you'll be able to edit any image in many different ways - create thumbnails, change the colors, flip it, blur it, etcetera. Needless to say, these changes are feasible if the script app that you employ on your website enables you to do such things. The two libraries can easily be used with many programming languages - PHP, Python, Perl, and so on., and support over a hundred popular image formats which you shall be able to work with - PNG, PSD, JPEG, TIFF, GIF and others.
ImageMagick and GD Library in Hosting
ImageMagick and GD Library are installed on our advanced cloud hosting platform, so regardless of which of our hosting plans you buy, both apps shall be available and activated by default for your new account. They will be a part of the software setting for your sites whatever the PHP version that you choose as we provide several different versions. Any custom or ready-made script app will be able to use the libraries so as to generate thumbnails of your images or graphs from simple text. Depending on the type of your website, you'll also be able to provide various features for your visitors - interactive galleries, real-time image modifying software on a social network site and so on.
ImageMagick and GD Library in Semi-dedicated Servers
You'll be able to run any script app which requires GD Library or ImageMagick to make graphs or use images, since both are installed and activated as standard on the cloud web hosting platform where all semi-dedicated server accounts are created. Even though you may upgrade the PHP version for your account, you won't have to do anything in order to re-enable these libraries as they will be available all the time. In this way, you will have a number of options in respect to what attributes both you and your site visitors shall be able to use, no matter if you are writing the website code yourself, you employ one of our pre-installed script applications or you download and install some app that you have discovered online. You can employ all sought-after formats for the images that you upload.