diff --git a/IHaskell/Display/Juicypixels.hs b/IHaskell/Display/Juicypixels.hs
--- a/IHaskell/Display/Juicypixels.hs
+++ b/IHaskell/Display/Juicypixels.hs
@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
-{-# LANGUAGE NoImplicitPrelude, TypeSynonymInstances, FlexibleInstances #-}
+{-# LANGUAGE TypeSynonymInstances, FlexibleInstances #-}
 
 module IHaskell.Display.Juicypixels (module IHaskell.Display, module Codec.Picture) where
 
 import           Codec.Picture
-import           ClassyPrelude
 import           IHaskell.Display
 import           System.Directory
 import           System.IO.Unsafe
+import qualified Data.ByteString.Char8 as CBS
 
 -- instances
 instance IHaskellDisplay DynamicImage where
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@
   saveJpgImage 95 filename renderable
   -- Convert to base64.
   imgData <- readFile filename
-  return $ Display [jpg (imWidth renderable) (imHeight renderable) $ base64 imgData]
+  return $ Display [jpg (imWidth renderable) (imHeight renderable) $ base64 (CBS.pack imgData)]
 
 -- The type DynamicImage does not have a function to extract width and height
 imWidth :: DynamicImage -> Int
@@ -90,5 +90,5 @@
 imWidthHeight (ImageCMYK8 im) = imWH im
 imWidthHeight (ImageCMYK16 im) = imWH im
 
-imWH :: (Image a) -> (Int, Int)
+imWH :: Image a -> (Int, Int)
 imWH im = (imageWidth im, imageHeight im)
diff --git a/ihaskell-juicypixels.cabal b/ihaskell-juicypixels.cabal
--- a/ihaskell-juicypixels.cabal
+++ b/ihaskell-juicypixels.cabal
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 -- PVP summary:      +-+------- breaking API changes
 --                   | | +----- non-breaking API additions
 --                   | | | +--- code changes with no API change
-version:             0.2.2.0
+version:             0.3.0.0
 
 -- A short (one-line) description of the package.
 synopsis:            IHaskell - IHaskellDisplay instances of the image types of the JuicyPixels package.
@@ -63,7 +63,6 @@
              
   -- Other library packages from which modules are imported.
   build-depends:       base >=4.6 && <4.9,
-                       classy-prelude >=0.10.5,
                        bytestring,
                        directory,
                        JuicyPixels >= 3.1.3,