ImageMagick and GD Library
Find what ImageMagick is as well as what the GD Library is used for and why they are so popular.
ImageMagick and GD are 2 of the most widespread graphic software libraries available on the market. They make the dynamic creation and editing of images and graphs on an internet site possible, so they should be present on a server if you host your internet sites on it and you would want 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 - create thumbnails, change the colors, flip it, blur it, and so on. Of course, these modifications are possible if the script app that you use on your website permits you to carry out such things. The two libraries could be used with many web development languages - PHP, Python, Perl, and so on., and support over 100 commonly used image formats which you will be able to work with - PNG, PSD, JPEG, TIFF, GIF and more.
ImageMagick and GD Library in Cloud Hosting
ImageMagick and GD Library are present on our outstanding cloud hosting platform, therefore no matter which of our Linux cloud hosting you choose, both apps will be available and enabled by default for your new account. They are part of the software setting for your websites whatever the PHP version that you pick because we supply a few different versions. Each custom or ready-made script app can use the libraries in order to create thumbnails of your images or graphs from plain text. Determined by the type of your website, you'll also be able to offer a lot of solutions for your visitors - interactive galleries, live image editing software on a social network website and so on.