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 a website doable, so they need to be available on a web server if you host your websites 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, etcetera. However, these modifications are feasible if the script app which you use on your site enables you to carry out such things. The two libraries can easily be used with numerous website development languages - PHP, Python, Perl, and so on., and support more than 100 widely used image formats that you will be able to work with - PNG, PSD, JPEG, TIFF, GIF and many more.

ImageMagick and GD Library in Cloud Hosting

Both ImageMagick and GD Library are present and enabled by default on our cutting-edge cloud hosting platform, which means that your scripts can use them whatever the Linux cloud hosting that you select when you sign up. This will help you set up multimedia websites without worrying about any technical limitations on our end. In case you own a portfolio site, for example, you can have dynamically generated thumbnails of the pictures which show your work, while in case you've got a social network or a similar website that engages the guests in some way, you'll be able to provide them with a variety of editing options for the photos that they upload. Also, you can convert text to pictures, which will give you a number of opportunities as to what content you will be able to offer on the website.

ImageMagick and GD Library in Semi-dedicated Hosting

You will be able to run any kind of script application which requires GD Library or ImageMagick to generate graphs or use images, because both are set up and activated as standard on the cloud website hosting platform where all semi-dedicated server accounts are created. Even though you may upgrade the PHP version for your account, you will not need to do anything to re-enable these libraries because they will be accessible at all times. Thus, you've got lots of options in respect to what attributes you and your website visitors can use, regardless of whether you write the site code yourself, you employ one of our pre-installed script applications or you download and set up some app that you have discovered online. You will be able to take advantage of all widespread formats for the pictures that you upload.