ImageMagick and GD Library
What's ImageMagick suitable for? What exactly is the GD Library? What lies behind their popularity?
ImageMagick and GD are two of the most widely used graphic software libraries nowadays. They make the dynamic creation and editing of images and graphs on a website doable, so they need to be available on a server if you host your internet sites on it and you prefer 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 - create thumbnails, change the colors, flip it, blur it, etcetera. Naturally, these tweaks are doable if the script app that you use on your site enables you to carry out such things. The 2 libraries could be used with various website development languages - PHP, Python, Perl, and so forth., and support more than a hundred commonly used image formats which you shall be able to work with - PNG, PSD, JPEG, TIFF, GIF and many more.
ImageMagick and GD Library in Cloud Hosting
Both ImageMagick and GD Library are available and activated as standard on our cutting-edge cloud hosting platform, which means that your scripts can use them irrespective of the cloud hosting that you select when you register. This will help you set up multimedia sites without having to worry about any sort of tech limitations on our end. When you have a portfolio website, for example, you can have dynamically generated thumbnails of the pictures that show your work, while in case you've got a social network or a similar site that engages your visitors in some way, you're able to provide them with various editing solutions for the pictures which they upload. Also, you can convert text to pictures, that provides you with many different opportunities regarding what content you'll be able to offer on your website.