ImageMagick and GD Library
What's ImageMagick intended for? What exactly is the GD Library? What is the reason for their worldwide popularity?
ImageMagick and GD are two of the most widespread graphic software libraries available on the market. They make the dynamic creation and editing of images and graphs on a website feasible, so they must be available on a web server if you host your sites on it and you would want 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 different ways - create thumbnails, change the colors, flip it, blur it, etcetera. Naturally, these tweaks are doable if the script application that you employ on your website allows you to perform such things. The two libraries could be used with numerous web 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 many others.
ImageMagick and GD Library in Web Hosting
ImageMagick and GD Library are set up on our outstanding cloud web hosting platform, which means that no matter which of our Linux web hosting packages you obtain, both applications shall be available and activated by default for your brand new account. They'll be a part of the software environment for your sites whatever the PHP version that you choose as we provide a few different releases. Each custom or ready-made script application will be able to use the libraries to generate thumbnails of your images or graphs from plain text. Determined by the nature of your site, you can also offer many different features for your visitors - interactive galleries, real-time image editing software on a social network site and so on.