If you would want to have dynamic images on your site, the machine where you host it must have the appropriate software for that. Rather than using static images with a fixed size, you could have thumbnails and automatically resized images based on the device a website visitor uses or you may even flip and invert images through a script app. All of these things are possible through ImageMagick and GD library - 2 pieces of software that can be installed on a web server and that work with a lot of frequently used scripting languages like: Perl, Python and PHP. That way, you could use images with any web-based app you want, no matter 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 such as GIF, PNG, TIFF, JPEG, and so on.

ImageMagick and GD Library in Cloud Hosting

Both ImageMagick and GD Library can be found and enabled as standard on our innovative cloud web hosting platform, so your scripts will be able to use them whatever the cloud hosting that you select when you register. This will allow you to set up interactive websites without having to worry about any kind of technical limitations on our end. If you have a portfolio site, for example, you can have dynamically generated thumbnails of the images which show your work, while when you've got a social network or a similar website which engages your visitors in some way, you're able to offer them a number of editing solutions for the images they upload. You can also convert text to pictures, which will give you a number of opportunities as to what content you are able to offer on your website.