Please login to your server as root user using Terminal (Mac OSX / Linux) or Powershell / Putty (Windows). Let’s start with PHP7.4 Imagick PHP module. But once you have installed it, it will be available for all web applications which use the same PHP version on your server. When ImageMagick is not installed on our server, we will see “ImageMagick PHP module not found” warning on this plugin setting page.īefore installing ImageMagick, ensure the proper PHP version for your web application.ĭepending on the PHP version installed, you will need a different ImageMagick installation. Installing ImageMagick PHP Extension (Imagick)įor example, when using WordPress, we might want to use the ImageMagick Engine WordPress Plugin to improve the quality of image for processing resizing and cropping in WordPress using ImageMagick. GD is widely available and usually enabled by default, but you have install and enable ImageMagick.ImageMagick usually produces better quality images, although sometimes better quality image will also increase the image file size.ImageMagick supports over 200 image formats.The key differences between ImageMagick and GD library are: Adding content to image, for example text, shape, other image (watermark), etc.Apply filters to image, for example color, contrast, brightness, etc.GD is another library that is also very popular and it is automatically available in RunCloud server.īoth ImageMagick and GD Library can be used for: ImageMagick is not the only image optimization library in PHP application. You can use ImageMagick to resize, flip, mirror, rotate, distort, shear and transform images, adjust image colors, apply various special effects, or draw text, lines, polygons, ellipses and Bézier curves. It can read and write over 200 image formats, including PNG, JPEG, GIF, HEIC, TIFF, DPX, EXR, WebP, Postscript, PDF, and SVG. ImageMagick is a free and open-source software that was created in 1987 by John Cristy to create, edit, compose, or convert bitmap images. Optional : Adding PDF Support To ImageMagick.Installing ImageMagick PHP Extension (Imagick).

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