ImageMagick and GD Library
Discover what ImageMagick is and what the GD Library is utilized for and why they're so widely common.
If you want to have dynamic images on your website, the machine where you host it needs to have the proper software for that. Rather than using static images with a fixed size, you can have thumbnails and automatically resized images in accordance with the device a site visitor uses or you can even flip and invert images through a script application. All of these things are possible via ImageMagick and GD library - two pieces of software which can be set up on a hosting server and that work with a lot of popular scripting languages including: Perl, Python and PHP. This way, you can use images with any web-based app you'd like, irrespective of the language it was developed with - a custom-made Perl script or a PHP one. The 2 libraries will permit you to work with more than one hundred different image formats like GIF, PNG, TIFF, JPEG, and so on.
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ImageMagick and GD Library in Cloud Web Hosting
ImageMagick and GD Library are set up on our state-of-the-art cloud hosting platform, which means that no matter which of our
cloud web hosting you select, both apps shall be available and enabled by default for your new account. They will be a part of the software setting for your websites regardless of the PHP version that you select as we provide several different versions. Any kind of custom or ready-made script application can use the libraries in order to create thumbnails of your images or graphs from simple text. Determined by the nature of your site, you will also be able to offer a lot of solutions for your visitors - interactive galleries, live image editing software on a social network site and so on.