ImageMagick and GD Library
Uncover what ImageMagick is and just what the GD Library is utilized for and why they are so popular.
ImageMagick and GD are two of the most widely used graphic software libraries available. They make the dynamic creation and editing of images and graphs on a website feasible, so they ought to be available on a web server if you host your websites 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 various ways - generate thumbnails, change the colors, flip it, blur it, etcetera. Naturally, these tweaks are doable if the script application which you use on your internet site enables you to do such things. The two libraries can be used with many website development languages - PHP, Python, Perl, and so on., and support more than one hundred commonly used image formats which you'll be able to work with - PNG, PSD, JPEG, TIFF, GIF and many more.
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ImageMagick and GD Library in Cloud Hosting
ImageMagick and GD Library are present on our cutting-edge cloud hosting platform, therefore regardless of which of our
Linux cloud hosting you buy, both apps shall be available and activated by default for your brand new account. They will be a part of the software environment for your sites regardless of the PHP version that you select since we offer a number of different releases. Every custom or ready-made script app can use the libraries to create thumbnails of your images or graphs from simple text. Determined by the type of your website, you will also be able to offer lots of solutions for your visitors - interactive galleries, live image modifying software on a social network website and many others.
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ImageMagick and GD Library in Semi-dedicated Servers
Both ImageMagick and GD Library are present on the cloud hosting platform where your new
semi-dedicated server account will be created, which means that you can use the full features of any script app that needs any of these two libraries in order to manage images, such as Joomla
™, WordPress, picture galleries, forums, and many others. If you are a website designer, you are able to write the program code yourself as we also support a lot of programming languages PHP and Python are among them. To give you even more options with regards to what kind of applications you'll be 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 all of them, so the software environment on our servers won't limit your choice in terms of the types of sites that you can have.