ImageMagick and GD are software libraries that need to be present on a web server for images to appear on a particular website. They permit you to perform various tasks with the images - create, flip, resize, change colors, and so on. These things can easily 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 website or for the image to be resized automatically with regards to the device and resolution the site visitor is using. Both ImageMagick and GD can be employed with a lot of web programming languages including PHP, Perl and Python, so you do not have to stick to just one language to develop your site. They work with over a hundred formats, which includes the most frequently used ones - JPEG, GIF, TIFF, PNG, and so forth.

ImageMagick and GD Library in Shared Web Hosting

Both ImageMagick and GD Library are present and activated by default on our revolutionary cloud hosting platform, which means that your scripts can use them regardless of the shared web hosting plan that you select when you sign up. This will help you create interactive sites without having to worry about any tech restrictions on our end. When you own a portfolio site, for instance, you can have dynamically generated thumbnails of the pictures which show your work, while when you've got a social network or a similar website that engages the guests in some way, you are able to provide them with various editing options for the images they upload. In addition, you can convert text to images, that provides you with numerous opportunities as to what content you are able to offer on your site.