Sven Henckel studied media informatics at the University for Practical Business Studies in Gütersloh, Germany. His diploma thesis was about the automatic generation of layout documents like QuarkXPress and Adobe InDesign. Before studying he worked as a developer and consultant for web applications. He currently works as an IT project manager for a European media service provider. He has developed a quality assurance system in which ImageMagick plays a very important role. Through the years he has attained specialized knowledge in the fields of Java, PHP, SQL, XML, and PDF. Moreover, he is interested in Open Source software, communication, and design.
Gabe Schaffer has a degree in computer science from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio where he resides. He has been programming for over 20 years, has been doing photography for 10 years, and does both as a freelancer. He uses ImageMagick for automating digital photo labs.
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Anthony Thyssen is a UNIX and Linux Systems Expert with an interest in image processing tools for UNIX since 1996, and has released an unoffical patched version of the old NetPBM graphic tool suite. He has been a user of the command-line version of ImageMagick since its inception. In recent years he developed a Image Magick version 6 Examples website, http://www.cit.gu.edu.au/~anthony/graphics/imagick6/, as a practical users' manual for both new and old users of ImageMagick. He has also been involved in the debugging and development of the IM core software, specifically in the areas of Alpha Compositing and GIF animation optimization.