ImageMagick and GD are software libraries that need to be present on a hosting server to enable images to appear on a given website. They allow you to carry out different tasks with the images - create, flip, resize, change colors, etc. These things can easily be performed online and in real time, so if you include a static image, for instance, the libraries make it possible for a thumbnail to show up on the internet 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 may be employed with a lot of web programming languages such as PHP, Perl and Python, so you don't have to stick to a single language to build your website. They work with more than 100 formats, including the most widely used ones - JPEG, GIF, TIFF, PNG, etc.

ImageMagick and GD Library in Shared Website Hosting

Both ImageMagick and GD Library can be found and enabled as standard on our state-of-the-art cloud website hosting platform, so your scripts will be able to use them regardless of the Linux shared website hosting package that you select when you sign up. This will help you set up multimedia websites without having to worry about any sort of technical limitations on our end. If you have a portfolio website, for instance, you can have dynamically generated thumbnails of the images that show your work, while in case you've got a social network or a similar site that engages the visitors in some way, you will be able to offer them a variety of editing solutions for the photos they upload. In addition, you can convert text to pictures, which will give you various opportunities with regards to what content you are able to offer on your site.