ImageMagick and GD are 2 of the most frequently used graphic software libraries nowadays. They make the dynamic creation and editing of images and graphs on a site doable, so they need to be installed on a web 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 set up, you shall be able to edit any image in many ways - generate thumbnails, change the colors, flip it, blur it, etcetera. Needless to say, these modifications are feasible if the script application that you use on your website allows you to perform such things. The two libraries can easily be used with different programming languages - PHP, Python, Perl, and so forth., and support over 100 commonly used image formats which you will be able to work with - PNG, PSD, JPEG, TIFF, GIF and others.

ImageMagick and GD Library in Cloud Website Hosting

Both ImageMagick and GD Library are present and activated by default on our cutting-edge cloud hosting platform, so your scripts can use them irrespective of the cloud website hosting plan that you select when you sign up. This will allow you to create interactive sites without having to worry about any technical restrictions on our end. In case you have a portfolio site, for instance, you can have dynamically generated thumbnails of the images that show your work, while in case you own a social network or a similar website which engages your visitors in some way, you are able to offer them a variety of editing solutions for the photos that they upload. You can also convert text to pictures, that will provide you with a number of opportunities with regards to what content you'll be able to offer on your website.

ImageMagick and GD Library in Semi-dedicated Servers

Since both GD Library and ImageMagick are installed on the cloud hosting platform where all the semi-dedicated server accounts are created, you won't experience any kind of problems to run any script app that needs these libraries to operate effectively. A lot of applications allow you to use graphs and pictures - discussion boards, cms, blog platforms, and many others, so if you work with such software on our end, you're able to use all of its attributes - automatically generated thumbnails for images linked to a forum reply or personalized avatars on a social network website, for example. The two libraries are available with all PHP versions that you are able to select from the Hepsia website hosting Control Panel - 4, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 5.5, 5.6, 7.0, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 8.0, 8.1, 8.2.