ImageMagick and GD are 2 of the most widely used graphic software libraries out there. They make the dynamic creation and editing of images and graphs on a site doable, so they should be installed on a web server if you host your websites on it and you want to have something different from static images with fixed dimensions. If ImageMagick and GD are present, you shall be able to edit any image in various ways - generate thumbnails, change the colors, flip it, blur it, and so on. Of course, these tweaks are possible if the script application that you use on your website enables you to perform such things. The two libraries can be used with different programming languages - PHP, Python, Perl, and so forth., and support over a hundred widely used image formats that you'll be able to work with - PNG, PSD, JPEG, TIFF, GIF and many others.

ImageMagick and GD Library in Semi-dedicated Servers

Both ImageMagick and GD Library are present on the cloud hosting platform where your new semi-dedicated server account shall be generated, therefore you can use the full attributes of any script app which needs any of the two libraries so as to manage images, like Joomla™, WordPress, image galleries, community forums, and the like. If you are a website designer, you can write the program code yourself as we also support lots of programming languages PHP and Python are some of them. To offer you even more options with regards to what sort of applications you will be able to run, we support a variety of PHP releases - 4, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4 and 5.5. GD and ImageMagick are enabled for each of them, so the software environment on the servers will not limit your choice in terms of the types of websites that you can have.