ImageMagick and GD are software libraries that should be present on a web server in order for images to appear on a particular internet site. They permit you to carry out various tasks with the images - create, flip, resize, change colors, and so on. These things can be performed online and in real time, so if you include a static image, for example, the libraries make it possible for a thumbnail to appear on the website or for the image to be resized automatically depending on the device and resolution that the visitor is using. Both ImageMagick and GD can be employed with lots of web programming languages such as PHP, Perl and Python, so you don't need to stick to one particular language to build your site. They work with over 100 formats, which includes the most widely used ones - JPEG, GIF, TIFF, PNG, and so on.

ImageMagick and GD Library in Cloud Web Hosting

Both ImageMagick and GD Library are available and activated as standard on our revolutionary cloud hosting platform, which means that your scripts will be able to use them whatever the cloud web hosting that you select when you register. This will help you create multimedia websites without having to worry about any kind of tech restrictions on our end. If you own a portfolio site, for example, you can have dynamically generated thumbnails of the images that show your work, while if you own a social network or a similar site that engages your guests in some way, you are able to offer them a number of editing options for the photos that they upload. Also, you can convert text to pictures, which gives you quite a lot of opportunities regarding what content you'll be able to offer on the site.

ImageMagick and GD Library in Semi-dedicated Servers

You can execute any script application that requires GD Library or ImageMagick to make graphs or work with images, because both are installed and enabled by default on the cloud website hosting platform where all semi-dedicated server accounts are created. In case you switch the PHP version for your account, you won't need to do anything to re-enable these libraries because they'll be accessible all of the time. Thus, you'll have a number of alternatives in respect to what features both you and your site visitors shall be able to use, no matter if 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 found on the web. You're able to use all the popular formats for the photos that you upload.