What is ImageMagick MagickWand for PHP?
It is image drawing software like GD, but not originally included in PHP distributions. Due to this, it is a lot less popular than GD, but it surely makes up for it in its vast amount of features and great image drawing quality. ImageMagick MagickWand for PHP is our personal recommendation over GD. We’ve done a lot of work in image drawing programming, and overall, ImageMagick MagickWand for PHP stands out to us to be better than GD through our experience. However, ImageMagick MagickWand for PHP is not as well documented on the Web as GD is. And installation of it of course as well is more trouble than GD would be, since GD originally comes with PHP. Finding a Web server installed with ImageMagick MagickWand for PHP would be a rare occurance, but most should have GD. Visit http://www.imagemagick.org/ to find out more details.