ImageMagick and GD are software libraries that need to be present on a hosting server for images to show up on a certain website. They allow you to carry out different tasks with the images - create, flip, resize, change colors, etc. These things could 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 site or for the image to be resized automatically depending upon the device and resolution that the website visitor is using. Both ImageMagick and GD may be used with various web programming languages including PHP, Perl and Python, so you do not need to stick to only one language to create your site. They work with over one hundred formats, which includes the most popular ones - JPEG, GIF, TIFF, PNG, and so forth.
ImageMagick and GD Library in Shared Hosting
Both ImageMagick and GD Library are available and activated by default on our revolutionary cloud website hosting platform, which means that your scripts can use them whatever the Linux shared hosting package that you select when you sign up. This will allow you to build interactive websites without worrying about any kind of technical limitations on our end. When you have a portfolio site, for example, you can have dynamically generated thumbnails of the images that show your work, while in case you own a social network or a similar website which engages your visitors in some way, you are able to provide them with various editing options for the photographs which they upload. You can also convert text to images, that provides you with numerous opportunities with regards to what content you can offer on the website.