ImageMagick has been in development for nearly 20 years, and for 20 years users of the project have rightly complained about its lack of documentation. I have never had the opportunity to write a book, because I am perpetually consumed with answering ImageMagick questions, fixing bugs, and adding enhancements. So when Matt Wade from Apress approached me about writing a book on ImageMagick, I did the proverbial happy dance.

Apress did well finding Michael Still to present ImageMagick to you. I know of Michael because of some articles he wrote on ImageMagick for IBM DeveloperWorks. I often refer ImageMagick users to those articles when they want a gentle introduction to using ImageMagick from the command line.