ImageMagick and GD are software libraries that need to be present on a hosting server to enable images to appear on a specific website. They allow you to carry out different tasks with the images - create, flip, resize, change colors, etc. These things can be done online and in real time, so if you add a static image, for instance, the libraries make it possible for a thumbnail to appear on the site or for the image to be resized automatically based on the device and resolution which the visitor is using. Both ImageMagick and GD may be used with many web programming languages including PHP, Perl and Python, so you do not have to stick to a single language to create your site. They work with more than 100 formats, which includes the most widespread ones - JPEG, GIF, TIFF, PNG, etc.
ImageMagick and GD Library in Shared Hosting
ImageMagick and GD Library are installed on our outstanding cloud web hosting platform, so regardless of which of our shared hosting plans you pick, both applications shall be available and enabled as standard for your new account. They'll be a part of the software environment for your websites whatever the PHP version that you select because we supply a number of different releases. Any 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 type of your site, you can also provide many different options for your visitors - interactive galleries, real-time image modifying software on a social network website and many more.
ImageMagick and GD Library in Semi-dedicated Servers
Both ImageMagick and GD Library are available on the cloud web hosting platform where your new semi-dedicated server account shall be generated, which means that you'll be able to take advantage of all the attributes of any script app that requires any of these 2 libraries so as to manage images, such as Joomla™, WordPress, picture galleries, community forums, and many others. If you are a website designer, you'll be able to write the program code yourself as we also support a number of programming languages PHP and Python are among them. To give you even more options with regards to what apps you'll be able to run, we support a variety of PHP releases - 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, so the software environment on our servers will not limit your choice in terms of the types of sites that you can host.