ImageMagick and GD are 2 of the most widespread graphic software libraries available on the market. They make the dynamic creation and editing of images and graphs on a site feasible, so they ought to be set up on a server if you host your websites on it and you would want to have something different than static images with fixed dimensions. If ImageMagick and GD are set up, you'll be able to edit any image in many different ways - generate thumbnails, change the colors, flip it, blur it, etc. Needless to say, these adjustments are doable if the script app that you use on your website allows you to carry out such things. The two libraries can easily be used with various website development languages - PHP, Python, Perl, etcetera., and support over 100 frequently used image formats that you shall be able to work with - PNG, PSD, JPEG, TIFF, GIF and more.

ImageMagick and GD Library in Shared Hosting

Both ImageMagick and GD Library are present and activated as standard on our innovative cloud hosting platform, so your scripts can use them irrespective of the Linux shared hosting that you select when you sign up. This will allow you to set up interactive sites without worrying about any kind of technical limitations on our end. In case you own 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 that engages the guests in some way, you will be able to offer them a number of editing options for the photographs which they upload. You can also convert text to images, that provides you with lots of opportunities with regards to what content you'll be able to offer on the website.

ImageMagick and GD Library in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Both ImageMagick and GD Library are available on the cloud hosting platform where your brand new semi-dedicated server account will be set up, so you'll be able to take advantage of all the attributes of any script application that requires any of the two libraries in order to manage images, such as Joomla™, WordPress, photo galleries, forums, and so on. If you are a web developer, you are able to write the program code yourself because we also support lots of programming languages PHP and Python are among them. To give you even more options with regards to what applications you'll be able to run, we support a number of different PHP versions - 4, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4 and 5.5. GD and ImageMagick are enabled for any of them, which means that the software environment on the servers will not limit your choice in terms of the types of sites which you can have.