ImageMagick and GD Library
Learn what ImageMagick is and just what the GD Library can be used for and why they are so widely common.
ImageMagick and GD are 2 of the most frequently used graphic software libraries on the market. They make the dynamic creation and editing of images and graphs on an internet site feasible, so they ought to be present on a server if you host your 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 many different ways - generate thumbnails, change the colors, flip it, blur it, etc. Of course, these changes are feasible if the script app that you use on your website permits you to perform such things. The two libraries could be used with various programming languages - PHP, Python, Perl, etcetera., and support more than a hundred commonly used image formats that you will be able to work with - PNG, PSD, JPEG, TIFF, GIF and others.
ImageMagick and GD Library in Cloud Website Hosting
ImageMagick and GD Library are installed on our advanced cloud web hosting platform, which means that regardless of which of our Linux cloud website hosting you obtain, both applications shall be available and enabled as standard for your new account. They are a part of the software environment for your websites whatever the PHP version that you pick because we provide several different versions. Any kind of custom or ready-made script app will be able to use the libraries so as to make thumbnails of your images or graphs from simple text. According to the type of your website, you'll also be able to provide many different solutions for your visitors - interactive galleries, live image editing software on a social network website and many more.