ImageMagick and GD are 2 of the most widely used graphic software libraries on the market. They make the dynamic creation and editing of images and graphs on a site possible, so they ought to be set up on a server if you host your websites on it and you prefer 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 a variety of ways - generate thumbnails, change the colors, flip it, blur it, and so forth. Naturally, these adjustments are possible if the script application which you employ on your site enables you to perform such things. The two libraries can easily be used with different website development languages - PHP, Python, Perl, and so forth., and support over one hundred frequently used image formats that you will be able to work with - PNG, PSD, JPEG, TIFF, GIF and many others.
ImageMagick and GD Library in Shared Hosting
Both ImageMagick and GD Library are available and enabled by default on our state-of-the-art cloud web hosting platform, so your scripts can use them whatever the shared hosting that you select when you register. This will allow you to set up interactive sites without worrying about any kind of technical restrictions on our end. If you own a portfolio website, for instance, you can have dynamically generated thumbnails of the images which show your work, while if you own a social network or a similar website that engages the visitors in some way, you are able to offer them various editing solutions for the images they upload. Also, you can convert text to images, which gives you a number of opportunities as to what content you can offer on the website.
ImageMagick and GD Library in Semi-dedicated Servers
Both ImageMagick and GD Library are available on the cloud web hosting platform where your brand new semi-dedicated server account shall be generated, which means that you'll be able to employ the full features of any script application that requires any of these 2 libraries to manage images, like Joomla™, WordPress, picture galleries, community forums, and so on. If you are a web developer, you are able to write the program code yourself because we also support lots of programming languages PHP and Python are some of them. To offer you even more options with regards to what kind of applications you're able to run, we support a number of different PHP releases - 4, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4 and 5.5. GD and ImageMagick shall be enabled for all of them, which means that the software environment on our servers will not limit your choice in terms of the types of sites that you can host.