The author and maintainer of Magick++ is Bob Friesenhan . Many thanks to Cristy for developing the powerful ImageMagick package that Magick++ is based on and for enhancing ImageMagick API features in order to allow a cleaner implementation. Thanks to Bill Radcliffe for his assistance with getting Magick++ to compile under Visual C++, and for maintaining the Windows build environment. Thanks to Albert Chin-A-Young for assisting with compilation issues related to the SGI C++ compiler, for providing access to the Sun C++ compiler, and for assistance with the configure script. Thanks to Leonard Rosenthol for ensuring that Magick++ compiles on the Mac.