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 site doable, so they should be set up on a server if you host your internet sites on it and you want to have something different from static images with fixed dimensions. If ImageMagick and GD are set up, you will be able to edit any image in various ways - create thumbnails, change the colors, flip it, blur it, and so on. Naturally, these tweaks are possible if the script app which you use on your website permits you to carry out such things. The 2 libraries can be used with different programming languages - PHP, Python, Perl, etc., and support more than one hundred frequently used image formats that you'll be able to work with - PNG, PSD, JPEG, TIFF, GIF and many others.
ImageMagick and GD Library in Cloud Hosting
ImageMagick and GD Library are present on our cutting-edge cloud web hosting platform, therefore no matter which of our cloud plans you obtain, both apps shall be available and enabled as standard for your new account. They will be part of the software environment for your sites whatever the PHP version that you select since we provide a number of different releases. Any custom or ready-made script app will be able to use the libraries in order to create thumbnails of your images or graphs from simple text. Determined by the type of your website, you will also be able to offer various features for your visitors - interactive galleries, real-time image editing software on a social network website and many others.