ImageMagick and GD are 2 of the most widely used 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 set up on a server if you host your internet sites on it and you want 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 a variety of ways - create thumbnails, change the colors, flip it, blur it, and so forth. Of course, these modifications are feasible if the script app which you use on your website enables you to carry out such things. The 2 libraries could be used with different website development languages - PHP, Python, Perl, etcetera., and support more than 100 popular image formats that you will be able to work with - PNG, PSD, JPEG, TIFF, GIF and many others.
ImageMagick and GD Library in Website Hosting
ImageMagick and GD Library are installed on our state-of-the-art cloud website hosting platform, which means that no matter which of our Linux website hosting you buy, both applications shall be available and enabled by default for your new account. They will be a part of the software setting for your sites irrespective of the PHP version that you choose since we provide a number of different releases. Any kind of custom or ready-made script app will be able to use the libraries in order to generate thumbnails of your images or graphs from plain text. Determined by the nature of your website, you will also be able to offer a wide range of solutions for your visitors - interactive galleries, live image modifying software on a social network site and many others.
ImageMagick and GD Library in Semi-dedicated Servers
You'll be able to run every script app that requires GD Library or ImageMagick to make graphs or use images, because both are set up and activated as standard on the cloud hosting platform where all the semi-dedicated server accounts are created. Even though you may upgrade the PHP version for your account, you will not need to do anything in order to re-enable these libraries as they will be accessible all the time. In this way, you have a number of options in respect to what attributes both you and your site visitors will be able to use, regardless if you write the website code yourself, you employ one of our pre-installed script apps or you download and set up some app that you've discovered on the Internet. You're able to employ all widespread formats for the photos which you upload.