The Definitive Guide to ImageMagick (Definitive Guides (Hardcover))

* The Definitive Guide to ImageMagick is the first book to cover ImageMagick (http://www.imagemagick.org/) comprehensively, one of the most popular open source software suites for creating and manipulating images.

* Beginner /Intermediate Programmers and Web Developers looking for an automated solution for image manipulation; this book explains how ImageMagick's features can be incorporated in a variety of applications.

* The author and review team is unusually strong: the author has been involved in large-scale image processing and storage for the past several years. And the creators of ImageMagick were closely involved in the book's technical review.