ImageMagick and GD Library
Discover more about ImageMagick and GD Library to find out why they're now present on almost every single server.
ImageMagick and GD are two of the most frequently used graphic software libraries out there. They make the dynamic creation and editing of images and graphs on an internet site doable, so they should be set up on a server if you host your sites on it and you prefer to have something different from static images with fixed dimensions. If ImageMagick and GD are installed, you'll be able to edit any image in many different ways - create 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 website enables you to carry out such things. The 2 libraries can be used with many programming languages - PHP, Python, Perl, etc., and support more than a hundred widely used image formats which you'll be able to work with - PNG, PSD, JPEG, TIFF, GIF and others.
ImageMagick and GD Library in Shared Web Hosting
ImageMagick and GD Library are installed on our revolutionary cloud web hosting platform, which means that no matter which of our Linux shared web hosting packages you choose, both apps will be available and activated as standard for your brand new account. They're part of the software environment for your sites whatever the PHP version that you pick as we supply a few different releases. Each custom or ready-made script app can use the libraries so as to create thumbnails of your images or graphs from simple text. According to the type of your site, you will also be able to provide lots of solutions for your visitors - interactive galleries, real-time image editing software on a social network website and many more.