ImageMagick and GD are 2 of the most widespread graphic software libraries out there. They make the dynamic creation and editing of images and graphs on a website possible, so they should be installed on a server if you host your websites 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 different ways - generate thumbnails, change the colors, flip it, blur it, etcetera. However, these tweaks are doable if the script app which you employ on your site allows you to do such things. The two libraries can be used with many web development languages - PHP, Python, Perl, etc., and support more than a hundred widely used image formats which you will be able to work with - PNG, PSD, JPEG, TIFF, GIF and more.
ImageMagick and GD Library in Web Hosting
Both ImageMagick and GD Library can be found and activated by default on our cutting-edge cloud website hosting platform, which means that your scripts will be able to use them irrespective of the web hosting that you select when you sign up. This will help you build interactive websites without worrying about any sort of tech limitations on our end. If you own a portfolio website, for instance, you can have dynamically generated thumbnails of the images which show your work, while in case you've got a social network or a similar website that engages your visitors in some way, you can offer them various editing solutions for the photos they upload. In addition, you can convert text to pictures, that will give you a number of opportunities regarding what content you can offer on the website.
ImageMagick and GD Library in Semi-dedicated Hosting
You'll be able to execute any kind of script app that requires GD Library or ImageMagick to create graphs or work with images, as both are installed and activated by default on the cloud hosting platform where all semi-dedicated server accounts are created. Even if you upgrade the PHP version for your account, you won't need to do anything to re-enable these libraries as they will be accessible at all times. Thus, you've got numerous alternatives in respect to what functions you and your site visitors shall be able to employ, regardless of whether you're writing the site code yourself, you employ one of our pre-installed script apps or you download and set up some application that you have discovered online. You'll be able to take advantage of all of the popular formats for the images that you upload.