ImageMagick and GD are two of the most widely used graphic software libraries out there. They make the dynamic creation and editing of images and graphs on a site possible, so they need to be installed on a server if you host your sites on it and you want to have something different than static images with fixed dimensions. If ImageMagick and GD are installed, you shall be able to edit any image in many ways - generate thumbnails, change the colors, flip it, blur it, etcetera. Of course, these tweaks are possible if the script app that you employ on your site permits you to carry out such things. The 2 libraries could be used with a lot of website development languages - PHP, Python, Perl, etc., and support more than a hundred frequently used image formats which you'll be able to work with - PNG, PSD, JPEG, TIFF, GIF and many more.

ImageMagick and GD Library in Cloud Website Hosting

ImageMagick and GD Library are set up on our revolutionary cloud web hosting platform, which means that no matter which of our cloud website hosting you pick, both apps will be available and activated as standard for your brand new account. They are a part of the software environment for your websites irrespective of the PHP version that you choose since we supply a number of different releases. Any custom or ready-made script application can use the libraries to generate thumbnails of your images or graphs from plain text. According to the type of your site, you will also be able to provide a number of options for your visitors - interactive galleries, real-time image editing software on a social network website and so on.

ImageMagick and GD Library in Semi-dedicated Servers

Both ImageMagick and GD Library are present on the cloud hosting platform where your brand new semi-dedicated server account will be set up, therefore you will be able to use all the attributes of any script application that needs any of these two libraries in order to manage images, like Joomla™, WordPress, image galleries, forums, and the like. If you are a website designer, you can write the program code yourself as we also support a number of programming languages PHP and Python are among them. To provide you with even more options with regards to what sort of applications you will be able to run, we support a number of different PHP versions - 4, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4 and 5.5. GD and ImageMagick shall be enabled for any of them, so the software environment on the servers will not restrict your choice in terms of the types of sites that you can host.