ImageMagick and GD are two of the most widely used graphic software libraries nowadays. They make the dynamic creation and editing of images and graphs on an internet site possible, so they should be installed on a web server if you host your sites on it and you prefer 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 a variety of ways - generate thumbnails, change the colors, flip it, blur it, etcetera. Naturally, these tweaks are feasible if the script app that you employ on your internet site allows you to carry out such things. The 2 libraries can be used with a lot of programming languages - PHP, Python, Perl, etc., and support more than 100 widely used image formats that you shall be able to work with - PNG, PSD, JPEG, TIFF, GIF and many more.
ImageMagick and GD Library in Cloud Website Hosting
Both ImageMagick and GD Library are accessible and enabled as standard on our cutting-edge cloud website hosting platform, which means that your scripts will be able to use them regardless of the Linux cloud website hosting that you select when you sign up. This will help you set up multimedia websites without worrying about any kind of technical limitations on our end. When you own a portfolio website, for example, you can have dynamically generated thumbnails of the images which show your work, while if you've got a social network or a similar website which engages your visitors in some way, you will be able to provide them with a variety of editing options for the images which they upload. You can also convert text to images, that will provide you with many different opportunities regarding what content you're able to offer on the website.
ImageMagick and GD Library in Semi-dedicated Hosting
Because both GD Library and ImageMagick are installed on the cloud hosting platform where all of the semi-dedicated server accounts are created, you will not experience any problems to run any kind of script app which needs these libraries in order to work effectively. A lot of apps allow you to work with graphs and pictures - community forums, cms, blog platforms, and many others, therefore if you use such software on our end, you're able to use all of its functions - automatically generated thumbnails for pictures attached to a forum reply or easy to customize avatars on a social network site, for example. The two libraries will be available with all of the PHP versions which you will be able to select from the Hepsia website hosting Control Panel - 4, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4 and 5.5.