If you would want to have dynamic images on your internet site, the machine in which you host it ought to have the suitable software for that. As opposed to using static images with a fixed size, you can have thumbnails and automatically resized images depending on the device a visitor uses or you could even flip and invert images via a script app. All these things are feasible through ImageMagick and GD library - 2 pieces of software which may be installed on a web server and which work with a great number of widely used scripting languages like: Perl, Python and PHP. That way, you can use images with any web-based app you'd like, regardless what language it was developed with - a custom-made Perl script or a PHP one. The two libraries will enable you to work with more than a hundred different image formats including GIF, PNG, TIFF, JPEG, and so on.
ImageMagick and GD Library in Shared Web Hosting
ImageMagick and GD Library are installed on our state-of-the-art cloud website hosting platform, therefore no matter which of our shared web hosting plans you get, both applications shall be available and enabled by default for your brand new account. They will be a part of the software environment for your sites whatever the PHP version that you pick since we offer a few different releases. Any custom or ready-made script application will be able to use the libraries to generate thumbnails of your images or graphs from simple text. According to the type of your website, you can also offer quite a lot of solutions for your visitors - interactive galleries, live image editing software on a social network website and so on.