ImageMagick and GD are two of the most widespread graphic software libraries nowadays. They make the dynamic creation and editing of images and graphs on a website possible, so they ought to be installed 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 will be able to edit any image in various ways - generate thumbnails, change the colors, flip it, blur it, and so forth. Naturally, these modifications are possible if the script app that you employ on your site allows you to do such things. The two libraries can be used with a lot of programming languages - PHP, Python, Perl, etcetera., and support more than a hundred commonly used image formats that you'll be able to work with - PNG, PSD, JPEG, TIFF, GIF and many others.

ImageMagick and GD Library in Shared Hosting

ImageMagick and GD Library are present on our advanced cloud hosting platform, so regardless of which of our shared hosting plans you obtain, both apps will be available and activated by default for your new account. They will be part of the software environment for your sites whatever the PHP version that you pick because we provide a number of different releases. Any custom or ready-made script application will be able to use the libraries so as to create thumbnails of your images or graphs from simple text. Based on the nature of your site, you'll also be able to provide a wide range of solutions for your visitors - interactive galleries, live image editing software on a social network site and many others.

ImageMagick and GD Library in Semi-dedicated Servers

You will be able to execute any script app which requires GD Library or ImageMagick to create graphs or work with images, because both are installed and enabled by default on the cloud hosting platform where all of the semi-dedicated server accounts are created. In case you change the PHP version for your account, you will not need to do anything to re-enable these libraries because they shall be accessible at all times. This way, you'll have numerous alternatives in respect to what attributes both you and your website visitors will be able to use, no matter if you're writing the site code yourself, you use one of our pre-installed script applications or you download and install some app that you've discovered on the web. You can use all widespread formats for the pictures which you upload.