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 doable, so they should be installed on a server if you host your internet sites on it and you would want to have something different than static images with fixed dimensions. If ImageMagick and GD are installed, you'll be able to edit any image in a variety of ways - generate thumbnails, change the colors, flip it, blur it, and so on. Of course, these tweaks are feasible if the script application which you employ on your website allows you to do such things. The 2 libraries could be used with a lot of website development languages - PHP, Python, Perl, etc., and support over 100 commonly used image formats which you'll be able to work with - PNG, PSD, JPEG, TIFF, GIF and many more.
ImageMagick and GD Library in Website Hosting
Both ImageMagick and GD Library are accessible and enabled as standard on our revolutionary cloud website hosting platform, which means that your scripts will be able to use them whatever the website hosting that you select when you join us. This will help you create interactive sites without having to worry about any kind of tech limitations on our end. If you have a portfolio site, for example, you can have dynamically generated thumbnails of the images which show your work, while if you have a social network or a similar website which engages your guests in some way, you can offer them various editing options for the pictures they upload. Also, you can convert text to images, which will give you various opportunities regarding what content you'll be able to offer on your site.
ImageMagick and GD Library in Semi-dedicated Servers
Because both GD Library and ImageMagick are installed on the cloud platform where all semi-dedicated server accounts are created, you will not have any kind of problems to run any sort of script app that needs these libraries in order to work efficiently. Numerous apps allow you to work with charts and images - discussion boards, cms, blog platforms, etcetera, therefore in case you use such software on our end, you are able to use all of its features - automatically generated thumbnails for images linked to a forum reply or easy to customize avatars on a social network site, for example. Both libraries are provided with all PHP versions which you can select through the Hepsia 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.