ImageMagick and GD are software libraries that should be present on a hosting server for images to show up on a given website. They allow you to perform different tasks with the images - create, flip, resize, change colors, and so forth. These things can easily be carried out online and in real time, so if you include a static image, for example, the libraries make it possible for a thumbnail to show up on the website or for the image to be resized automatically depending upon the device and resolution which the website visitor is using. Both ImageMagick and GD can be employed with a lot of web programming languages including PHP, Perl and Python, so you don't need to stick to one particular language to create your website. They work with more than a hundred formats, including the most popular ones - JPEG, GIF, TIFF, PNG, and so on.
ImageMagick and GD Library in Web Hosting
Both ImageMagick and GD Library can be found and enabled as standard on our innovative cloud hosting platform, which means that your scripts can use them regardless of the Linux web hosting that you select when you sign up. This will help you set up multimedia websites without worrying about any sort of tech limitations on our end. In case you have a portfolio website, for instance, you can have dynamically generated thumbnails of the images that show your work, while when you have a social network or a similar site which engages your guests in some way, you will be able to offer them a variety of editing options for the photographs which they upload. In addition, you can convert text to images, that will provide you with various opportunities regarding what content you are able to offer on the site.
ImageMagick and GD Library in Semi-dedicated Hosting
You will be able to execute every script application that requires GD Library or ImageMagick to create charts or work with images, because both are installed and enabled by default on the cloud web hosting platform where all the semi-dedicated server accounts are created. Even though you may change the PHP version for your account, you won't need to do anything to re-enable these libraries as they will be available all of the time. This way, you have many options in respect to what functions both you and your site visitors shall be able to use, no matter if you write the website code yourself, you employ one of our pre-installed script applications or you download and install some app that you have found on the worldwide web. You can take advantage of all sought-after formats for the photos that you upload.