If you want to have dynamic images on your website, the machine in which you host it needs to have the appropriate software for this. Rather than using static images with a fixed size, you may have thumbnails and automatically resized images depending on the device a site visitor uses or you can even flip and invert images using a script application. All of these things are doable via ImageMagick and GD library - 2 pieces of software that may be set up on a hosting server and which work with a large amount of popular scripting languages like: Perl, Python and PHP. This way, you could use images with any web-based application that you'd like, regardless of the language it was created with - a custom-made Perl script or a PHP one. The two libraries shall allow you to work with over 100 different image formats such as GIF, PNG, TIFF, JPEG, and so on.
ImageMagick and GD Library in Shared Hosting
Both ImageMagick and GD Library are present and enabled by default on our cutting-edge cloud hosting platform, which means that your scripts can use them regardless of the Linux shared hosting package that you select when you sign up. This will allow you to set up interactive sites without worrying about any sort of technical limitations on our end. When you own a portfolio website, for example, you can have dynamically generated thumbnails of the pictures which show your work, while in case you've got a social network or a similar website that engages the guests in some way, you'll be able to offer them a number of editing options for the images which they upload. Also, you can convert text to pictures, which will provide you with a number of opportunities with regards to what content you'll be able to offer on the website.