ImageMagick and GD are 2 of the most popular graphic software libraries on the market. They make the dynamic creation and editing of images and graphs on an internet site doable, so they need to be installed on a web server if you host your websites on it and you want to have something different from static images with fixed dimensions. If ImageMagick and GD are set up, you shall be able to edit any image in a variety of ways - generate thumbnails, change the colors, flip it, blur it, etcetera. Naturally, these modifications are feasible if the script application that you employ on your website allows you to perform such things. The two libraries can easily be used with different web development languages - PHP, Python, Perl, and so forth., and support over a hundred popular image formats which you'll be able to work with - PNG, PSD, JPEG, TIFF, GIF and many more.
ImageMagick and GD Library in Hosting
ImageMagick and GD Library are set up on our revolutionary cloud web hosting platform, which means that regardless of which of our Linux hosting service you obtain, both apps will be available and activated by default for your brand new account. They'll be part of the software setting for your websites regardless of the PHP version that you choose since we supply a number of different releases. Any custom or ready-made script application will be able to use the libraries to create thumbnails of your images or graphs from plain text. According to the nature of your site, you'll also be able to provide a number of options for your visitors - interactive galleries, real-time image editing software on a social network site and so on.
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 set up, so you'll be able to employ all the features of any script app that needs any of the two libraries to manage images, such as Joomla™, WordPress, photo galleries, discussion boards, and so on. In case you are a web developer, you will be able to write the program code yourself as we also support a lot of programming languages PHP and Python are some of them. To supply you with even more options with regards to what apps you will be able to run, we support a variety of 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 any of them, which means that the software environment on our servers will never restrict your choice in terms of the types of websites which you can have.