ImageMagick and GD are software libraries that need to be present on a server in order for images to show up on a particular website. They permit you to carry out different tasks with the images - create, flip, resize, change colors, etcetera. These things can certainly 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 show up on the site 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 used with lots of web programming languages including PHP, Perl and Python, so you don't need to stick to a single language to develop your site. They work with over a hundred formats, which includes the most widespread ones - JPEG, GIF, TIFF, PNG, and so on.
ImageMagick and GD Library in Shared Hosting
Both ImageMagick and GD Library are accessible and enabled as standard on our state-of-the-art cloud hosting platform, so your scripts will be able to use them irrespective of the shared package that you select when you sign up. This will allow you to set up interactive sites without having to worry about any kind of tech limitations on our end. In case you have a portfolio website, for example, you can have dynamically generated thumbnails of the images that show your work, while when you own a social network or a similar website that engages your visitors in some way, you're able to provide them with a variety of editing solutions for the photographs they upload. Also, you can convert text to images, which will give you a number of opportunities regarding what content you can offer on your site.
ImageMagick and GD Library in Semi-dedicated Hosting
Because both GD Library and ImageMagick are installed on the cloud hosting platform where all of the semi-dedicated server accounts are created, you will not have any problems to run any kind of script application which requires these libraries to function effectively. Lots of applications allow you to use graphs and images - forums, cms, blog platforms, etc, thus when you work with such software on our end, you'll be able to use all of its features - automatically generated thumbnails for images linked to a forum reply or customizable avatars on a social network site, for example. The two libraries are available with all the PHP versions which you'll be able to select through the Hepsia web 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.