ImageMagick and GD are 2 of the most widespread graphic software libraries nowadays. They make the dynamic creation and editing of images and graphs on a website feasible, so they should be set up on a web server if you host your websites on it and you prefer to have something different from static images with fixed dimensions. If ImageMagick and GD are present, you will be able to edit any image in a variety of ways - create thumbnails, change the colors, flip it, blur it, etc. Naturally, these changes are feasible if the script application that you employ on your website enables you to perform such things. The 2 libraries can easily be used with a lot of web development languages - PHP, Python, Perl, and so on., and support over a hundred widely used image formats that you shall be able to work with - PNG, PSD, JPEG, TIFF, GIF and more.
ImageMagick and GD Library in Shared Website Hosting
Both ImageMagick and GD Library can be found and enabled as standard on our innovative cloud web hosting platform, so your scripts will be able to use them irrespective of the shared website hosting plan that you select when you sign up. This will allow you to set up interactive sites without worrying about any sort of tech limitations on our end. If you own a portfolio website, for example, you can have dynamically generated thumbnails of the images which show your work, while in case you have a social network or a similar website which engages your guests in some way, you are able to provide them with a number of editing solutions for the pictures which they upload. Also, you can convert text to images, which provides you with lots of opportunities as to what content you are able to offer on your site.
ImageMagick and GD Library in Semi-dedicated Servers
Since both GD Library and ImageMagick are installed on the cloud platform where all semi-dedicated server accounts are created, you will not have any problems to run any sort of script application which needs these libraries to work properly. Numerous applications allow you to use graphs and pictures - community forums, content management systems, blog platforms, etcetera, thus if you work with such software on our end, you can use all of its features - automatically generated thumbnails for images attached to a forum reply or easy to customize avatars on a social network site, for example. The two libraries will be provided with all of the PHP releases which you are able to select from the Hepsia web hosting Control Panel - 4, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 5.5, 5.6, 7.0, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 8.0, 8.1, 8.2.