ImageMagick and GD are two of the most widely used graphic software libraries available. They make the dynamic creation and editing of images and graphs on an internet site possible, so they must be available on a server if you host your websites on it and you want to have something different than static images with fixed dimensions. If ImageMagick and GD are set up, you shall be able to edit any image in various ways - create thumbnails, change the colors, flip it, blur it, and so forth. Needless to say, these modifications are feasible if the script app which you employ on your internet site permits you to carry out such things. The 2 libraries can be used with different website development languages - PHP, Python, Perl, and so on., and support more than 100 commonly used image formats that you shall be able to work with - PNG, PSD, JPEG, TIFF, GIF and more.
ImageMagick and GD Library in Semi-dedicated Hosting
You will be able to run any kind of script app which requires GD Library or ImageMagick to generate charts or work with images, as both are installed and activated as standard on the cloud hosting platform where all semi-dedicated server accounts are created. Even if you upgrade the PHP version for your account, you will not have to do anything in order to re-enable these libraries as they'll be accessible all the time. Thus, you'll have numerous alternatives in respect to what functions both you and your site visitors shall be able to use, regardless if you're writing the website code yourself, you employ one of our pre-installed script applications or you download and install some application which you've found on the worldwide web. You'll be able to use all of the popular formats for the images which you upload.