ImageMagick and GD Library
What is ImageMagick employed for? What precisely is the GD Library? What lies behind their popularity?
ImageMagick and GD are 2 of the most widespread graphic software libraries on the market. They make the dynamic creation and editing of images and graphs on an internet site feasible, so they need to be present on a server if you host your sites on it and you would like to have something different from static images with fixed dimensions. If ImageMagick and GD are installed, you will be able to edit any image in various ways - generate thumbnails, change the colors, flip it, blur it, and so on. Of course, these modifications are doable if the script application that you employ on your website allows you to carry out such things. The 2 libraries can easily be used with a lot of programming languages - PHP, Python, Perl, and so forth., and support more than one hundred popular image formats that you shall be able to work with - PNG, PSD, JPEG, TIFF, GIF and many more.
ImageMagick and GD Library in Cloud Web Hosting
Our custom-built cloud server platform will supply the proper software setting for all your sites regardless of the content that you want to have. Galleries as well as any other types of sites which work with images and charts are not an exception because ImageMagick and GD Library are accessible with all the cloud web hosting plans that we provide. Your account will be created on the cloud hosting platform and no matter which PHP version you wish to use (4, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 5.5), both the libraries will be enabled by default, not on demand. Given that the script application which you are using offers such features, you could manage images from the admin area, while the site guests shall be able to do that by using the front end of the site.