GD Graphics Library: Dynamic Image Creation

Key Features

• It allows your code to quickly draw images complete with lines, arcs, text, multiple colors, cut and paste from other images, and flood fills, and write out the result as a PNG or JPEG file.
• This is particularly useful in World Wide Web applications, where PNG and JPEG are two of the formats accepted for inline images by most browsers.
• gd is not a paint program.
• If you are looking for a paint program, you are looking in the wrong place.
• If you are not a programmer, you are looking in the wrong place.
• gd does not provide for every possible desirable graphics operation.
• It is not necessary or desirable for gd to become a kitchen-sink graphics package, but version 1.7.3 incorporates most of the commonly requested features for an 8-bit 2D package.
• Support for truecolor images, including truecolor JPEG and PNG, is planned for version 2.0.

Technical Specifications

• **Publisher:** Boutell.com
• **License:** Freeware
• **Operating System:** Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 10, Windows 11
• **Last Updated:** October 15, 2025
• **Category:** Programming / Misc Programming Tools