ImageMagick and GD are software libraries that need to be present on a web server for images to appear on a specific website. They enable you to execute a variety of tasks with the images - create, flip, resize, change colors, and so on. These things could be performed online and in real time, so if you include a static image, for example, the libraries make it possible for a thumbnail to appear on the site or for the image to be resized automatically with regards to the device and resolution that the site visitor is using. Both ImageMagick and GD can be used with many different web programming languages like PHP, Perl and Python, so you don't need to stick to one particular language to build your site. They work with over one hundred formats, which includes the most widely used ones - JPEG, GIF, TIFF, PNG, etc.
ImageMagick and GD Library in Shared Hosting
Both ImageMagick and GD Library are accessible and enabled as standard on our cutting-edge cloud web hosting platform, which means that your scripts will be able to use them regardless of the Linux shared hosting package that you select when you register. This will allow you to set up multimedia websites without having to worry about any technical restrictions on our end. When you have a portfolio site, for instance, you can have dynamically generated thumbnails of the pictures that show your work, while when you own a social network or a similar website which engages your visitors in some way, you will be able to provide them with a number of editing options for the pictures they upload. In addition, you can convert text to images, which will give you various opportunities regarding what content you're able to offer on your website.
ImageMagick and GD Library in Semi-dedicated Hosting
Both ImageMagick and GD Library are available on the cloud web hosting platform where your new semi-dedicated server account shall be created, which means that you will be able to employ all the attributes of any script application that needs any of these two libraries to manage images, like Joomla™, WordPress, photo galleries, discussion boards, and so on. If you are a website designer, you can write the code yourself as we also support plenty of programming languages PHP and Python are some of them. To offer you even more options with regards to what sort of apps 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 will be enabled for any of them, so the software environment on the servers will never limit your choice in terms of the types of sites that you can have.