ImageMagick and GD are two of the most widespread graphic software libraries out there. They make the dynamic creation and editing of images and graphs on an internet site possible, so they should be installed on a server if you host your internet sites on it and you prefer to have something different from static images with fixed dimensions. If ImageMagick and GD are set up, you will be able to edit any image in many ways - generate thumbnails, change the colors, flip it, blur it, and so on. Of course, these changes are feasible if the script app that you employ on your site allows you to perform such things. The 2 libraries could be used with many web development languages - PHP, Python, Perl, etcetera., and support over a hundred widely used image formats that you shall be able to work with - PNG, PSD, JPEG, TIFF, GIF and others.

ImageMagick and GD Library in Cloud Hosting

ImageMagick and GD Library are present on our leading-edge cloud website hosting platform, therefore no matter which of our Linux cloud plans you purchase, both applications shall be available and activated as standard for your new account. They are a part of the software setting for your websites whatever the PHP version that you choose because we supply several different versions. Any kind of custom or ready-made script application will be able to use the libraries to generate thumbnails of your images or graphs from plain text. Depending on the nature of your site, you can also provide a wide range of options for your visitors - interactive galleries, real-time image modifying software on a social network website and many more.

ImageMagick and GD Library in Semi-dedicated Servers

You can execute any script application which requires GD Library or ImageMagick to make charts or work with images, since both are set up and activated as standard on the cloud hosting platform where all semi-dedicated server accounts are created. Even though you may get new PHP version for your account, you will not need to do anything to re-enable these libraries as they shall be accessible all the time. This way, you have many options in respect to what functions you and your website visitors will be able to employ, no matter if you write the website code yourself, you use one of our pre-installed script applications or you download and set up some application that you have discovered online. You are able to employ all widespread formats for the images that you upload.