I am not using my own web server and I am not sure that my webhost company is going to install GD or ImagMagick.....is there any other way or am I missing something.....Help.
Most webhosts will have at least one installed as standard. Ask them. If your webhost refuses then there are plenty of others out there.
GD come as bundle with PHP , most webhost have GD
to check if you have GD or not just create simple php file with this code
<?php
phpinfo()
?>
and run it , then search the result for GD
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