If you would want to have dynamic images on your internet site, the web server in which you host it needs to have the proper software for this. Rather than using static images with a fixed size, you can have thumbnails and automatically resized images based on the device a site visitor uses or you can even flip and invert images through a script application. All these things are doable via ImageMagick and GD library - 2 pieces of software that could be installed on a server and which work with a lot of frequently used scripting languages including: Perl, Python and PHP. This way, you can use images with any web-based application that you'd like, irrespective of the language it was developed with - a custom-made Perl script or a PHP one. The 2 libraries will enable you to work with more than one hundred different image formats including GIF, PNG, TIFF, JPEG, and so forth.

ImageMagick and GD Library in Shared Website Hosting

ImageMagick and GD Library are set up on our revolutionary cloud hosting platform, which means that no matter which of our shared website hosting you select, both apps will be available and activated as standard for your brand new account. They're a part of the software setting for your websites regardless of the PHP version that you pick because we offer a number of different releases. Each custom or ready-made script application can use the libraries in order to create thumbnails of your images or graphs from plain text. Based on the nature of your website, you will also be able to offer a number of solutions for your visitors - interactive galleries, real-time image modifying software on a social network site and so on.

ImageMagick and GD Library in Semi-dedicated Servers

You can run any script app which requires GD Library or ImageMagick to generate charts or use images, as both are set up and activated as standard on the cloud web hosting platform where all of the semi-dedicated server accounts are created. In case you switch the PHP version for your account, you won't need to do anything in order to re-enable these libraries because they'll be available at all times. This way, you have a number of options in respect to what attributes both you and your site visitors shall be able to use, regardless if you write the website code yourself, you use one of our pre-installed script applications or you download and install some app which you've discovered online. You can use all widespread formats for the photos which you upload.