ImageMagick and GD Library

Find what ImageMagick is and just what the GD Library is used for and why they are so widely common.

ImageMagick and GD are software libraries that ought to be present on a server for images to appear on a given internet site. They enable you to carry out a variety of 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 example, the libraries make it possible for a thumbnail to appear on the internet site or for the image to be resized automatically depending upon the device and resolution the website visitor is using. Both ImageMagick and GD may be employed with lots of web programming languages including PHP, Perl and Python, so you do not have to stick to one particular language to develop your website. They work with more than one hundred formats, including the most widely used ones - JPEG, GIF, TIFF, PNG, etc.

ImageMagick and GD Library in Shared Web Hosting

Both ImageMagick and GD Library are available and activated by default on our innovative cloud website hosting platform, so your scripts will be able to use them irrespective of the shared web hosting that you select when you register. This will help you build interactive websites without worrying about any kind of technical limitations on our end. When you own a portfolio site, for instance, you can have dynamically generated thumbnails of the images which show your work, while if you have a social network or a similar site that engages your guests in some way, you'll be able to offer them various editing solutions for the photos that they upload. Also, you can convert text to images, which gives you lots of opportunities regarding what content you are able to offer on your site.