ImageMagick and GD are software libraries which should be present on a hosting server to enable images to appear on a particular website. They enable you to execute different tasks with the images - create, flip, resize, change colors, etc. These things can certainly be carried out online and in real time, so if you add a static image, for example, the libraries make it possible for a thumbnail to appear on the website or for the image to be resized automatically depending upon the device and resolution the site visitor is using. Both ImageMagick and GD may be used with a lot of web programming languages including PHP, Perl and Python, so you do not need to stick to a single language to create your site. They work with more than a hundred formats, which includes the most widespread ones - JPEG, GIF, TIFF, PNG, and so forth.
ImageMagick and GD Library in Web Hosting
ImageMagick and GD Library are installed on our leading-edge cloud web hosting platform, so regardless of which of our Linux web hosting you acquire, both apps shall be available and enabled as standard for your brand new account. They are a part of the software setting for your sites whatever the PHP version that you choose because we supply a number of different releases. Any custom or ready-made script app can use the libraries so as to make thumbnails of your images or graphs from simple text. Based on the type of your site, you'll also be able to offer quite a lot of solutions for your visitors - interactive galleries, live image modifying software on a social network website and many more.
ImageMagick and GD Library in Semi-dedicated Servers
As both GD Library and ImageMagick are set up on the cloud hosting platform where all semi-dedicated server accounts are created, you won't have any problems to run any kind of script application that requires these libraries to work efficiently. Numerous apps allow you to work with charts and images - forums, cms, blog platforms, etc, therefore in case you employ such software on our end, you can use all of its attributes - automatically generated thumbnails for images attached to a forum reply or customizable avatars on a social network website, for example. The two libraries are available with all of the PHP releases which you are able to select from the Hepsia hosting Control Panel - 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.