ImageMagick and GD are 2 of the most widespread graphic software libraries nowadays. They make the dynamic creation and editing of images and graphs on a site possible, so they must be set up on a web server if you host your websites on it and you prefer to have something different from static images with fixed dimensions. If ImageMagick and GD are set up, you shall be able to edit any image in a variety of ways - generate thumbnails, change the colors, flip it, blur it, etc. Needless to say, these modifications are possible if the script app which you use on your site allows you to perform such things. The 2 libraries can be used with different website development languages - PHP, Python, Perl, etc., and support over a hundred popular image formats which you shall be able to work with - PNG, PSD, JPEG, TIFF, GIF and more.
ImageMagick and GD Library in Shared Web Hosting
ImageMagick and GD Library are present on our advanced cloud website hosting platform, therefore no matter which of our Linux shared web hosting packages you get, both apps will be available and enabled as standard for your brand new account. They will be part of the software setting for your websites regardless of the PHP version that you select as we supply several different releases. Each custom or ready-made script app will be able to use the libraries in order to create thumbnails of your images or graphs from plain text. Depending on the nature of your site, you can also provide lots of features for your visitors - interactive galleries, live image modifying software on a social network site and so on.
ImageMagick and GD Library in Semi-dedicated Hosting
Both ImageMagick and GD Library are available on the cloud hosting platform where your brand new semi-dedicated server account will be generated, therefore you'll be able to employ all of the attributes of any script application that requires any of the two libraries in order to manage images, such as Joomla™, WordPress, picture galleries, message boards, and the like. In case you are a web developer, you are able to write the program code yourself because we also support a lot of programming languages PHP and Python are some of them. To supply you with even more options with regards to what kind of apps you are 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 all of them, which means that the software environment on our servers will not limit your choice in terms of the types of sites that you can host.