ImageMagick and GD Library
What is ImageMagick used for? What precisely is the GD Library? What lies behind their worldwide recognition?
ImageMagick and GD are two of the most widely used graphic software libraries out there. They make the dynamic creation and editing of images and graphs on a website feasible, so they should be present on a server if you host your websites on it and you want to have something different from static images with fixed dimensions. If ImageMagick and GD are present, you shall be able to edit any image in a variety of ways - generate thumbnails, change the colors, flip it, blur it, and so forth. Naturally, these adjustments are feasible if the script app which you employ on your website permits you to perform such things. The two libraries could be used with a lot of programming languages - PHP, Python, Perl, and so on., and support more than one hundred widely used image formats which you shall be able to work with - PNG, PSD, JPEG, TIFF, GIF and many others.
ImageMagick and GD Library in Hosting
Both ImageMagick and GD Library can be found and activated as standard on our state-of-the-art cloud hosting platform, so your scripts can use them regardless of the Linux hosting that you select when you sign up. This will help you set up interactive sites without worrying about any sort of tech limitations on our end. If you have a portfolio site, for instance, you can have dynamically generated thumbnails of the images that show your work, while if you own a social network or a similar website that engages your visitors in some way, you'll be able to provide them with a number of editing solutions for the pictures which they upload. In addition, you can convert text to pictures, that will give you quite a lot of opportunities as to what content you're able to offer on the site.