ImageMagick and GD are 2 of the most popular graphic software libraries out there. They make the dynamic creation and editing of images and graphs on a site possible, so they should be present on a 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 present, you'll be able to edit any image in a variety of ways - create thumbnails, change the colors, flip it, blur it, etc. Naturally, these tweaks are feasible if the script application which you use on your site permits you to do such things. The 2 libraries could be used with numerous programming languages - PHP, Python, Perl, and so forth., and support more than a hundred popular image formats that you will be able to work with - PNG, PSD, JPEG, TIFF, GIF and others.
ImageMagick and GD Library in Shared Hosting
ImageMagick and GD Library are present on our advanced cloud web hosting platform, therefore regardless of which of our Linux shared hosting packages you get, both applications shall be available and enabled as standard for your brand new account. They're a part of the software setting for your sites regardless of the PHP version that you choose since we supply a number of different releases. Any custom or ready-made script application will be able to use the libraries so as to generate thumbnails of your images or graphs from plain text. Depending on the nature of your website, you'll also be able to provide various solutions for your visitors - interactive galleries, real-time image modifying software on a social network website and many others.
ImageMagick and GD Library in Semi-dedicated Hosting
You will be able to execute any script app that requires GD Library or ImageMagick to generate graphs or work with images, since both are set up and enabled by default on the cloud web hosting platform where all of the semi-dedicated server accounts are created. Even if you change the PHP version for your account, you won't have to do anything to re-enable these libraries as they'll be accessible all of the time. Thus, you'll have a lot of alternatives in respect to what attributes you and your website visitors will be able to employ, no matter if you're writing the site code yourself, you use one of our pre-installed script apps or you download and install some app which you've discovered on the worldwide web. You will be able to take advantage of all the popular formats for the pictures that you upload.