diff --git a/src/CanvasTilePainter/CanvasTilePainter.php b/src/CanvasTilePainter/CanvasTilePainter.php
index 6460a1f..5b26e87 100644
--- a/src/CanvasTilePainter/CanvasTilePainter.php
+++ b/src/CanvasTilePainter/CanvasTilePainter.php
@@ -2,8 +2,8 @@
 
 namespace StaticMapLite\CanvasTilePainter;
 
+use Imagine\Image\Point;
 use StaticMapLite\Canvas\Canvas;
-use StaticMapLite\TileResolver\TileResolver;
 use StaticMapLite\TileResolver\TileResolverInterface;
 
 class CanvasTilePainter
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ class CanvasTilePainter
         return $this;
     }
 
-    public function setTileResolver(TileResolver $tileResolver): CanvasTilePainter
+    public function setTileResolver(TileResolverInterface $tileResolver): CanvasTilePainter
     {
         $this->tileResolver = $tileResolver;
 
@@ -49,35 +49,16 @@ class CanvasTilePainter
 
         for ($x = $startX; $x <= $endX; $x++) {
             for ($y = $startY; $y <= $endY; $y++) {
-                $tileData = $this->tileResolver->fetch($this->canvas->getZoom(), $x, $y);
-
-                if ($tileData) {
-                    $tileImage = $this->createTile($tileData);
-                } else {
-                    $tileImage = $this->createErrorTile();
-                }
+                $tileImage = $this->tileResolver->fetch($this->canvas->getZoom(), $x, $y);
 
                 $destX = ($x - $startX) * $this->canvas->getTileSize() + $offsetX;
                 $destY = ($y - $startY) * $this->canvas->getTileSize() + $offsetY;
 
-                imagecopy($this->canvas->getImage(), $tileImage, $destX, $destY, 0, 0, $this->canvas->getTileSize(), $this->canvas->getTileSize());
+                $point = new Point($destX, $destY);
+                $tileImage->paste($this->canvas->getImage(), $point);
             }
         }
 
         return $this;
     }
-
-    protected function createTile(string $tileData)
-    {
-        return imagecreatefromstring($tileData);
-    }
-
-    protected function createErrorTile()
-    {
-        $tileImage = imagecreate($this->canvas->getTileSize(), $this->canvas->getTileSize());
-        $color = imagecolorallocate($tileImage, 255, 255, 255);
-        @imagestring($tileImage, 1, 127, 127, 'err', $color);
-
-        return $tileImage;
-    }
 }
diff --git a/src/TileResolver/AbstractTileResolver.php b/src/TileResolver/AbstractTileResolver.php
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..c48c691
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/TileResolver/AbstractTileResolver.php
@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+<?php
+
+namespace StaticMapLite\TileResolver;
+
+use Curl\Curl;
+use Imagine\Gd\Imagine;
+use Imagine\Image\ImagineInterface;
+
+abstract class AbstractTileResolver implements TileResolverInterface
+{
+    /** @var string $tileLayerUrl */
+    protected $tileLayerUrl;
+
+    /** @var Curl $curl */
+    protected $curl;
+
+    /** @var ImagineInterface $imagine */
+    protected $imagine;
+
+    public function __construct()
+    {
+        $this->curl = new Curl();
+        $this->imagine = new Imagine();
+    }
+
+    public function setTileLayerUrl(string $tileLayerUrl): TileResolverInterface
+    {
+        $this->tileLayerUrl = $tileLayerUrl;
+
+        return $this;
+    }
+}
diff --git a/src/TileResolver/CachedTileResolver.php b/src/TileResolver/CachedTileResolver.php
index bdbc3bd..b2a1226 100644
--- a/src/TileResolver/CachedTileResolver.php
+++ b/src/TileResolver/CachedTileResolver.php
@@ -2,12 +2,14 @@
 
 namespace StaticMapLite\TileResolver;
 
+use Imagine\Image\ImageInterface;
+
 class CachedTileResolver extends TileResolver
 {
     /** @var string $tileCacheBaseDir */
     protected $tileCacheBaseDir = '../cache/tiles';
 
-    public function fetch(int $zoom, int $x, int $y): string
+    public function fetch(int $zoom, int $x, int $y): ImageInterface
     {
         $url = $this->resolve($zoom, $x, $y);
 
@@ -31,24 +33,26 @@ class CachedTileResolver extends TileResolver
         return $this->tileCacheBaseDir . '/' . str_replace(['http://', 'https://'], '', $url);
     }
 
-    protected function checkTileCache(string $url)
+    protected function checkTileCache(string $url): ?ImageInterface
     {
         $filename = $this->tileUrlToFilename($url);
 
         if (file_exists($filename)) {
-            return file_get_contents($filename);
+            $tileImagine = $this->imagine->open($filename);
+
+            return $tileImagine;
         }
 
-        return false;
+        return null;
     }
 
-    protected function writeTileToCache($url, $data): CachedTileResolver
+    protected function writeTileToCache($url, ImageInterface $tileImage): CachedTileResolver
     {
         $filename = $this->tileUrlToFilename($url);
 
         $this->mkdir_recursive(dirname($filename), 0777);
 
-        file_put_contents($filename, $data);
+        $tileImage->save($filename);
 
         return $this;
     }
@@ -56,6 +60,7 @@ class CachedTileResolver extends TileResolver
     protected function mkdir_recursive($pathname, $mode): bool
     {
         is_dir(dirname($pathname)) || $this->mkdir_recursive(dirname($pathname), $mode);
+
         return is_dir($pathname) || @mkdir($pathname, $mode);
     }
 }
diff --git a/src/TileResolver/TileResolver.php b/src/TileResolver/TileResolver.php
index 4944439..27da539 100644
--- a/src/TileResolver/TileResolver.php
+++ b/src/TileResolver/TileResolver.php
@@ -2,39 +2,26 @@
 
 namespace StaticMapLite\TileResolver;
 
-use Curl\Curl;
+use Imagine\Image\ImageInterface;
 
-class TileResolver implements TileResolverInterface
+class TileResolver extends AbstractTileResolver
 {
-    /** @var string $tileLayerUrl */
-    protected $tileLayerUrl;
-
-    /** @var Curl $curl */
-    protected $curl;
-
-    public function __construct()
-    {
-        $this->curl = new Curl();
-    }
-
-    public function setTileLayerUrl(string $tileLayerUrl): TileResolver
-    {
-        $this->tileLayerUrl = $tileLayerUrl;
-
-        return $this;
-    }
-
     public function resolve(int $zoom, int $x, int $y): string
     {
         return str_replace(['{z}', '{x}', '{y}'], [$zoom, $x, $y], $this->tileLayerUrl);
     }
 
-    public function fetch(int $zoom, int $x, int $y): string
+    public function fetch(int $zoom, int $x, int $y): ImageInterface
     {
         $url = $this->resolve($zoom, $x, $y);
 
         $this->curl->get($url);
 
-        return $this->curl->response;
+        $image = $this
+            ->imagine
+            ->load($this->curl->response)
+        ;
+
+        return $image;
     }
 }
diff --git a/src/TileResolver/TileResolverInterface.php b/src/TileResolver/TileResolverInterface.php
index c4a45b6..22eb00f 100644
--- a/src/TileResolver/TileResolverInterface.php
+++ b/src/TileResolver/TileResolverInterface.php
@@ -2,9 +2,11 @@
 
 namespace StaticMapLite\TileResolver;
 
+use Imagine\Image\ImageInterface;
+
 interface TileResolverInterface
 {
-    public function setTileLayerUrl(string $tileLayerUrl): TileResolver;
+    public function setTileLayerUrl(string $tileLayerUrl): TileResolverInterface;
     public function resolve(int $zoom, int $x, int $y): string;
-    public function fetch(int $zoom, int $x, int $y): string;
+    public function fetch(int $zoom, int $x, int $y): ImageInterface;
 }