ImageMagick and GD Library
Discover more about ImageMagick and GD Library to find out why they are currently present on almost every single server.
ImageMagick and GD are 2 of the most widely used graphic software libraries available. They make the dynamic creation and editing of images and graphs on an internet site feasible, so they must be installed on a server if you host your sites on it and you would want to have something different from static images with fixed dimensions. If ImageMagick and GD are set up, you'll be able to edit any image in many ways - generate thumbnails, change the colors, flip it, blur it, etc. Naturally, these modifications are possible if the script app that you use on your website allows you to perform such things. The 2 libraries can easily be used with many programming languages - PHP, Python, Perl, etcetera., and support over a hundred commonly used image formats which you shall be able to work with - PNG, PSD, JPEG, TIFF, GIF and others.
ImageMagick and GD Library in Hosting
ImageMagick and GD Library are installed on our revolutionary cloud web hosting platform, so regardless of which of our Linux hosting plans you choose, both apps shall be available and enabled as standard for your new account. They are a part of the software setting for your websites regardless of the PHP version that you select since we supply a number of different versions. Any kind of custom or ready-made script app can use the libraries to generate thumbnails of your images or graphs from plain text. Based on the nature of your website, you'll also be able to offer a lot of solutions for your visitors - interactive galleries, live image modifying software on a social network site and many more.