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 a site feasible, so they should be set up on a web server if you host your websites on it and you would like to have something different than static images with fixed dimensions. If ImageMagick and GD are present, you shall be able to edit any image in many different ways - create thumbnails, change the colors, flip it, blur it, etcetera. However, these tweaks are feasible if the script app which you employ on your site allows you to carry out such things. The 2 libraries can be used with numerous website development languages - PHP, Python, Perl, and so on., and support more than 100 popular image formats which you'll be able to work with - PNG, PSD, JPEG, TIFF, GIF and others.

ImageMagick and GD Library in Shared Website Hosting

ImageMagick and GD Library are set up on our advanced cloud website hosting platform, so regardless of which of our shared website hosting plans you acquire, both applications shall be available and activated by default for your brand new account. They're part of the software environment for your websites regardless of the PHP version that you select because we provide a few different versions. Every custom or ready-made script app will be able to use the libraries to create thumbnails of your images or graphs from simple text. According to the type of your site, you'll also be able to provide many different solutions for your visitors - interactive galleries, real-time image editing software on a social network website and many more.

ImageMagick and GD Library in Semi-dedicated Servers

As both GD Library and ImageMagick are installed on the cloud platform where all of the semi-dedicated server accounts are created, you will not have any kind of problems to run any sort of script application which requires these libraries to work effectively. Lots of apps allow you to use charts and pictures - community forums, cms, blog platforms, etc, therefore when you employ such software on our end, you can use all of its features - automatically generated thumbnails for pictures attached to a forum reply or personalized avatars on a social network website, for example. The two libraries are available with all the PHP releases which you're able to select through the Hepsia hosting Control Panel - 4, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4 and 5.5.