ImageMagick and GD Library
Uncover what ImageMagick is and what the GD Library is used for and why they are so widely common.
ImageMagick and GD are 2 of the most widespread graphic software libraries on the market. They make the dynamic creation and editing of images and graphs on a website possible, so they must be available on a web server if you host your sites on it and you want to have something different from static images with fixed dimensions. If ImageMagick and GD are present, you will be able to edit any image in many ways - generate thumbnails, change the colors, flip it, blur it, etc. Of course, these tweaks are possible if the script application which you employ on your site enables you to perform such things. The two libraries can be used with numerous programming languages - PHP, Python, Perl, and so on., and support over one hundred widely used image formats which you shall be able to work with - PNG, PSD, JPEG, TIFF, GIF and more.
ImageMagick and GD Library in Cloud Web Hosting
ImageMagick and GD Library are present on our outstanding cloud website hosting platform, which means that regardless of which of our cloud web hosting you choose, both applications will be available and activated as standard for your new account. They are a part of the software setting for your sites regardless of the PHP version that you choose because we provide a number of different releases. Any custom or ready-made script app can use the libraries to create thumbnails of your images or graphs from plain text. Depending on the nature of your website, you'll also be able to provide lots of options for your visitors - interactive galleries, real-time image editing software on a social network website and many more.