ImageMagick and GD are 2 of the most frequently used graphic software libraries nowadays. They make the dynamic creation and editing of images and graphs on an internet site possible, so they must be set up on a server if you host your internet sites on it and you would want to have something different from static images with fixed dimensions. If ImageMagick and GD are set up, you'll be able to edit any image in many different ways - generate thumbnails, change the colors, flip it, blur it, and so forth. Of course, these adjustments are doable if the script application which you employ on your internet site enables you to perform such things. The two libraries can be used with a lot of programming languages - PHP, Python, Perl, etc., and support more than 100 popular image formats which you shall be able to work with - PNG, PSD, JPEG, TIFF, GIF and others.

ImageMagick and GD Library in Cloud Hosting

Both ImageMagick and GD Library can be found and activated as standard on our state-of-the-art cloud hosting platform, which means that your scripts will be able to use them regardless of the Linux cloud package that you select when you join us. This will help you build interactive websites without having to worry about any kind of tech restrictions on our end. When you have a portfolio website, for instance, you can have dynamically generated thumbnails of the pictures that show your work, while in case you own a social network or a similar website which engages the visitors in some way, you will be able to offer them various editing options for the photos which they upload. In addition, you can convert text to images, which gives you various opportunities with regards to what content you're able to offer on your website.

ImageMagick and GD Library in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Both ImageMagick and GD Library are present on the cloud web hosting platform where your new semi-dedicated server account will be created, therefore you will be able to employ the full attributes of any script app which needs any of the two libraries in order to manage images, such as Joomla™, WordPress, photo galleries, discussion forums, and many others. In case you are a web developer, you'll be able to write the program code yourself because we also support plenty of programming languages PHP and Python are some of them. To offer you even more options with regards to what kind of applications you're able to run, we support a variety of PHP releases - 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 websites which you can have.