ImageMagick and GD Library
Learn more about ImageMagick and GD Library and see why they are currently present on almost every server.
ImageMagick and GD are two of the most widely 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 present on a web server if you host your internet sites on it and you would like to have something different from static images with fixed dimensions. If ImageMagick and GD are installed, you will be able to edit any image in many ways - generate thumbnails, change the colors, flip it, blur it, and so forth. Needless to say, these adjustments are possible if the script application that you employ on your website permits you to carry out such things. The two libraries could be used with various web development languages - PHP, Python, Perl, and so on., and support more than one hundred widely used image formats which you will be able to work with - PNG, PSD, JPEG, TIFF, GIF and many more.
ImageMagick and GD Library in Shared Web Hosting
Both ImageMagick and GD Library are accessible and enabled as standard on our cutting-edge cloud web hosting platform, so your scripts can use them irrespective of the shared web hosting that you select when you sign up. This will help you build multimedia sites without worrying about any tech restrictions on our end. If you own a portfolio website, for instance, you can have dynamically generated thumbnails of the pictures which show your work, while when you own a social network or a similar website that engages your guests in some way, you can provide them with a variety of editing options for the photographs they upload. In addition, you can convert text to images, that provides you with many different opportunities with regards to what content you'll be able to offer on your site.