If you would want to have dynamic images on your website, the machine in which you host it needs to have the proper software for that. Instead of using static images with a fixed size, you can have thumbnails and automatically resized images depending on the device a website visitor uses or you may even flip and invert images via a script application. All these things are feasible with ImageMagick and GD library - 2 pieces of software which could be installed on a hosting server and that work with a great number of frequently used scripting languages including: Perl, Python and PHP. Thus, you may use images with any web-based application you'd like, regardless what language it was designed with - a custom-made Perl script or a PHP one. The two libraries shall allow you to work with over a hundred different image formats including GIF, PNG, TIFF, JPEG, etcetera.
ImageMagick and GD Library in Shared Website Hosting
ImageMagick and GD Library are installed on our revolutionary cloud hosting platform, therefore no matter which of our Linux shared website hosting you purchase, both applications shall be available and activated as standard for your new account. They will be a part of the software environment for your websites irrespective of the PHP version that you pick since we supply several different releases. Any kind of custom or ready-made script app can use the libraries to generate thumbnails of your images or graphs from plain text. Based on the nature of your site, you can also provide quite a lot of features for your visitors - interactive galleries, real-time image editing software on a social network site and so on.