diff --git a/ipywe/imageslider.py b/ipywe/imageslider.py
index 6b6fca4..d369b5c 100644
--- a/ipywe/imageslider.py
+++ b/ipywe/imageslider.py
@@ -169,8 +169,8 @@ def getimg_bytes(self):
         # resample if necessary
         resample_ratio = view_size/size
         if resample_ratio != 1.:
-            import scipy.misc
-            img = scipy.misc.imresize(img, resample_ratio)
+            from PIL import Image
+            img = np.array(Image.fromarray(img).resize((self.width, self.height)))
         """Allows the correct string IO module to be used
                based on the version of Python.
            Once support for Python 2.7 ends, this if-else statement