ImageMagick and GD are 2 of the most popular graphic software libraries available on the market. They make the dynamic creation and editing of images and graphs on a site possible, so they should be installed on a server if you host your internet sites on it and you would like to have something different than static images with fixed dimensions. If ImageMagick and GD are installed, you shall be able to edit any image in various ways - generate thumbnails, change the colors, flip it, blur it, etc. Of course, these changes are doable if the script application that you use on your site enables you to carry out such things. The 2 libraries can easily be used with different website development languages - PHP, Python, Perl, and so on., and support over a hundred commonly used image formats that you'll be able to work with - PNG, PSD, JPEG, TIFF, GIF and many more.

ImageMagick and GD Library in Shared Website Hosting

Both ImageMagick and GD Library are accessible and activated by default on our state-of-the-art cloud website hosting platform, so your scripts can use them whatever the shared website hosting service that you select when you join us. This will allow you to create interactive websites without having to worry about any sort of tech limitations on our end. In case you have a portfolio site, for example, you can have dynamically generated thumbnails of the pictures that show your work, while in case you own a social network or a similar site which engages the guests in some way, you're able to provide them with a number of editing options for the images which they upload. Also, you can convert text to images, which gives you many different opportunities regarding what content you can offer on your website.

ImageMagick and GD Library in Semi-dedicated Hosting

You can execute any kind of script app that requires GD Library or ImageMagick to create graphs or use images, as both are set up and enabled as standard on the cloud web hosting platform where all of the semi-dedicated server accounts are created. In case you change the PHP version for your account, you won't have to do anything in order to re-enable these libraries as they'll be accessible all of the time. Thus, you've got lots of alternatives in respect to what features both you and your website visitors will be able to use, no matter if you write the site code yourself, you use one of our pre-installed script applications or you download and install some application which you've found online. You are able to use all of the popular formats for the images that you upload.