ImageMagick and GD are software libraries that ought to be present on a server for images to show up on a specific internet site. They allow you to carry out various tasks with the images - create, flip, resize, change colors, and so on. These things can certainly be done online and in real time, so if you add a static image, for instance, the libraries make it possible for a thumbnail to show up on the internet site or for the image to be resized automatically depending upon the device and resolution which the website visitor is using. Both ImageMagick and GD may be employed with many web programming languages including PHP, Perl and Python, so you do not have to stick to just one language to build your site. They work with over 100 formats, which includes the most frequently used ones - JPEG, GIF, TIFF, PNG, and so forth.

ImageMagick and GD Library in Web Hosting

ImageMagick and GD Library are set up on our cutting-edge cloud web hosting platform, which means that no matter which of our Linux web hosting you acquire, both apps will be available and enabled by default for your brand new account. They are a part of the software environment for your sites regardless of the PHP version that you choose since we provide a number of different releases. Each custom or ready-made script app can use the libraries to generate thumbnails of your images or graphs from plain text. Determined by the type of your site, you will also be able to provide numerous options 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 will be able to run any kind of script application which requires GD Library or ImageMagick to generate charts or work with images, since both are installed and enabled as standard on the cloud website hosting platform where all the semi-dedicated server accounts are created. Even if you get new PHP version for your account, you won't need to do anything in order to re-enable these libraries because they will be available all of the time. Thus, you have lots of options in respect to what attributes both you and your site visitors shall be able to employ, regardless of whether you write the website code yourself, you use one of our pre-installed script apps or you download and install some app which you have found on the worldwide web. You'll be able to take advantage of all of the widespread formats for the images that you upload.