ImageMagick and GD are two 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 must be installed on a web server if you host your sites on it and you prefer to have something different than static images with fixed dimensions. If ImageMagick and GD are present, you will be able to edit any image in a variety of ways - generate thumbnails, change the colors, flip it, blur it, and so forth. Needless to say, these modifications are doable if the script app which you use on your website permits you to do such things. The two libraries can be used with numerous programming languages - PHP, Python, Perl, and so forth., and support over 100 frequently used image formats that you'll be able to work with - PNG, PSD, JPEG, TIFF, GIF and more.

ImageMagick and GD Library in Hosting

Both ImageMagick and GD Library are present and enabled as standard on our state-of-the-art cloud web hosting platform, which means that your scripts will be able to use them whatever the Linux hosting service that you select when you sign up. This will allow you to build multimedia websites without worrying about any sort of technical restrictions on our end. In case you have a portfolio site, for example, you can have dynamically generated thumbnails of the pictures which show your work, while if you've got a social network or a similar site that engages your guests in some way, you can offer them a number of editing solutions for the photos they upload. Also, you can convert text to pictures, that gives you a number of opportunities regarding what content you'll be able to offer on your site.

ImageMagick and GD Library in Semi-dedicated Servers

Both ImageMagick and GD Library are available on the cloud web hosting platform where your new semi-dedicated server account shall be set up, which means that you will be able to use all of the attributes of any script application that requires any of these 2 libraries in order to manage images, like Joomla™, WordPress, photo galleries, forums, and the like. In case you are a web developer, you'll be able to write the code yourself as we also support lots of programming languages PHP and Python are some of them. To offer you even more options with regards to what sort of apps you're able to run, we support a number of PHP versions - 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. GD and ImageMagick will be enabled for each of them, which means that the software environment on the servers won't limit your choice in terms of the types of websites which you can host.