If you would want to have dynamic images on your website, the server where you host it needs to have the correct software for that. Rather than using static images with a fixed size, you may have thumbnails and automatically resized images in accordance with the device a website visitor uses or you can even flip and invert images via a script app. All of these things are doable through ImageMagick and GD library - 2 pieces of software which can be installed on a server and that work with a wide range of popular scripting languages like: Perl, Python and PHP. In this way, you may use images with any web-based application that you'd like, no matter what language it was designed with - a custom-made Perl script or a PHP one. The 2 libraries shall allow you to work with over one hundred different image formats like GIF, PNG, TIFF, JPEG, etcetera.
ImageMagick and GD Library in Website Hosting
Both ImageMagick and GD Library are present and enabled by default on our state-of-the-art cloud hosting platform, so your scripts will be able to use them irrespective of the Linux website hosting that you select when you sign up. This will allow you to set up multimedia websites without having to worry about any sort of tech limitations on our end. When you have a portfolio website, for instance, you can have dynamically generated thumbnails of the images which show your work, while if you own a social network or a similar site that engages your visitors in some way, you are able to offer them a variety of editing solutions for the images that they upload. In addition, you can convert text to images, which provides you with various opportunities regarding what content you are able to offer on the site.
ImageMagick and GD Library in Semi-dedicated Hosting
You can run any script application that requires GD Library or ImageMagick to generate charts or work with images, as both are set up and enabled by default on the cloud hosting platform where all semi-dedicated server accounts are created. Even though you may upgrade the PHP version for your account, you won't need to do anything in order to re-enable these libraries because they will be accessible at all times. This way, you'll have loads of alternatives in respect to what attributes both you and your site visitors shall be able to employ, no matter if you are writing the site code yourself, you employ one of our pre-installed script apps or you download and set up some app which you have discovered on the web. You will be able to use all sought-after formats for the photos that you upload.