ImageMagick and GD are 2 of the most widely used graphic software libraries on the market. They make the dynamic creation and editing of images and graphs on a website doable, so they must be set up on a web server if you host your internet sites on it and you would like to have something different from static images with fixed dimensions. If ImageMagick and GD are installed, you'll be able to edit any image in various ways - generate thumbnails, change the colors, flip it, blur it, and so on. Naturally, these tweaks are possible if the script application which you employ on your site permits you to do such things. The two libraries could be used with a lot of web development languages - PHP, Python, Perl, etcetera., and support more than a hundred frequently used image formats which you'll be able to work with - PNG, PSD, JPEG, TIFF, GIF and more.

ImageMagick and GD Library in Shared Web Hosting

ImageMagick and GD Library are set up on our revolutionary cloud hosting platform, so regardless of which of our Linux shared web hosting packages you buy, both apps will be available and activated as standard for your new account. They're part of the software setting for your sites whatever the PHP version that you choose as we supply several different versions. Any custom or ready-made script app can use the libraries so as to make thumbnails of your images or graphs from simple text. Determined by the type of your site, you'll also be able to provide lots of options for your visitors - interactive galleries, live image modifying software on a social network website and so on.

ImageMagick and GD Library in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Both ImageMagick and GD Library are available on the cloud web hosting platform where your new semi-dedicated server account shall be created, which means that you'll be able to take advantage of the full features of any script application that needs any of the two libraries to manage images, like Joomla™, WordPress, picture galleries, discussion forums, and so on. If you are a website designer, you are able to write the code yourself because we also support plenty of programming languages PHP and Python are among them. To offer you even more options with regards to what sort of apps you'll be able to run, we support a variety of PHP releases - 4, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4 and 5.5. GD and ImageMagick will be enabled for each of them, which means that the software environment on the servers will never limit your choice in terms of the types of websites that you can host.