ImageMagick and GD are software libraries that need to be present on a server in order for images to appear on a particular site. They permit you to carry out various tasks with the images - create, flip, resize, change colors, etcetera. These things can be done online and in real time, so if you add a static image, for example, the libraries make it possible for a thumbnail to show up on the website or for the image to be resized automatically with regards to the device and resolution which the visitor is using. Both ImageMagick and GD can be employed with lots of web programming languages like PHP, Perl and Python, so you don't need to stick to one particular language to create your internet site. They work with more than 100 formats, including the most popular ones - JPEG, GIF, TIFF, PNG, and so on.
ImageMagick and GD Library in Shared Web Hosting
Both ImageMagick and GD Library are present and activated as standard on our state-of-the-art cloud web hosting platform, which means that your scripts can use them regardless of the Linux shared web hosting that you select when you join us. This will allow you to build multimedia sites without having to worry about any kind of tech restrictions on our end. If you own a portfolio site, for instance, you can have dynamically generated thumbnails of the images which show your work, while in case you own a social network or a similar site that engages your guests in some way, you are able to offer them a variety of editing options for the photographs they upload. Also, you can convert text to pictures, that will provide you with lots of opportunities with regards to what content you will be able to offer on the site.
ImageMagick and GD Library in Semi-dedicated Hosting
You'll be able to run every script application that requires GD Library or ImageMagick to generate graphs or work with images, since both are set up and activated by default on the cloud website hosting platform where all of the semi-dedicated server accounts are created. In case you get new PHP version for your account, you won't have to do anything to re-enable these libraries because they will be available all of the time. This way, you'll have a lot of options in respect to what functions you and your site visitors shall be able to employ, regardless of whether you're writing the website code yourself, you use one of our pre-installed script applications or you download and set up some app that you have found on the web. You are able to use all popular formats for the pictures that you upload.