ImageMagick and GD Library
Discover what ImageMagick is as well as what the GD Library is utilized for and why they're so popular.
ImageMagick and GD are software libraries that need to be present on a web server for images to appear on a given website. They enable you to perform different tasks with the images - create, flip, resize, change colors, etc. These things can easily 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 internet site or for the image to be resized automatically with regards to the device and resolution that the visitor is using. Both ImageMagick and GD can be used with many web programming languages such as PHP, Perl and Python, so you do not have to stick to one particular language to develop your website. They work with over one hundred formats, which includes the most frequently used ones - JPEG, GIF, TIFF, PNG, and so forth.
ImageMagick and GD Library in Cloud Web Hosting
ImageMagick and GD Library are present on our advanced cloud hosting platform, which means that no matter which of our Linux cloud web hosting you choose, both applications shall be available and activated by default for your new account. They are a part of the software environment for your sites regardless of the PHP version that you select since we offer a few different versions. Any custom or ready-made script app can use the libraries so as to generate thumbnails of your images or graphs from simple text. Based on the type of your website, you can also offer various solutions for your visitors - interactive galleries, real-time image modifying software on a social network website and many others.