ImageMagick and GD are two of the most frequently used graphic software libraries out there. They make the dynamic creation and editing of images and graphs on an internet site possible, so they ought to be present on a web server if you host your internet sites on it and you prefer to have something different from static images with fixed dimensions. If ImageMagick and GD are installed, you'll be able to edit any image in many ways - generate thumbnails, change the colors, flip it, blur it, and so on. Needless to say, these changes are feasible if the script app that you employ on your site allows you to perform such things. The two libraries can easily be used with various programming languages - PHP, Python, Perl, and so forth., and support over 100 popular image formats which you shall 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 installed on our leading-edge cloud web hosting platform, which means that no matter which of our Linux shared hosting packages you select, both applications shall be available and activated as standard for your brand new account. They'll be part of the software setting for your sites whatever the PHP version that you select as we supply a few different releases. Every custom or ready-made script app can use the libraries in order to generate thumbnails of your images or graphs from simple text. Based on the nature of your site, you'll also be able to provide various features for your visitors - interactive galleries, real-time image modifying software on a social network site and many others.
ImageMagick and GD Library in Semi-dedicated Hosting
Both ImageMagick and GD Library are present on the cloud hosting platform where your brand new semi-dedicated server account will be created, which means that you'll be able to use all the attributes of any script app that needs any of these two libraries so as to manage images, like Joomla™, WordPress, photo galleries, discussion forums, and the like. In case you are a website designer, you are able to write the program code yourself because we also support a number of programming languages PHP and Python are some of them. To give you even more options with regards to what kind of applications you're able to run, we support a variety of PHP versions - 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. GD and ImageMagick are enabled for each of them, so the software environment on the servers will not limit your choice in terms of the types of websites which you can have.