diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 306928d..8e40954 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ classifiers=[
 ]
 dynamic = ["version"]
 dependencies = [
-    "Pillow>=9.0.0",
+    "Pillow==9.5.0",
     "defusedxml",
     "pi3d>=2.49",
     "PyYAML",
diff --git a/src/picframe/mat_image.py b/src/picframe/mat_image.py
index 03e5ccc..62bd138 100644
--- a/src/picframe/mat_image.py
+++ b/src/picframe/mat_image.py
@@ -206,7 +206,7 @@ def __style_float_color_wrap(self, images):
             self.__add_image_outline(image, color2)
             image = ImageOps.expand(image, border_width)
             self.__add_image_outline(image, color, outline_width=border_width)
-            highlight = self.__9patch_highlight.render(image.width, image.height)
+            highlight = self.__9patch_highlight.render(image.width, image.height,  Image.Resampling.LANCZOS)
             image.paste(highlight, (0, 0), highlight)
             image = self.__add_drop_shadow(image)
             final_images.append(image)
@@ -337,12 +337,12 @@ def __get_inner_mat(self, size):
     def __add_outer_bevel(self, image, expand=True):
         if expand:
             image = ImageOps.expand(image, 5)
-        outer_bevel_image = self.__9patch_bevel.render(image.width, image.height)
+        outer_bevel_image = self.__9patch_bevel.render(image.width, image.height, Image.Resampling.LANCZOS)
         image.paste(outer_bevel_image, (0, 0), outer_bevel_image)
         return image
 
     def __add_inner_shadow(self, image):
-        inner_shadow_image = self.__9patch_inner_shadow.render(image.width, image.height)
+        inner_shadow_image = self.__9patch_inner_shadow.render(image.width, image.height,  Image.Resampling.LANCZOS)
         image.paste(inner_shadow_image, (0, 0), inner_shadow_image)
         return image
 
@@ -362,7 +362,7 @@ def __add_image_outline(self, img, mat_base_color, outline_width=1, auto_adjust=
     def __add_drop_shadow(self, image):
         shadow_offset = 15
         mod_image = Image.new('RGBA', (image.width + shadow_offset, image.height + shadow_offset), (0, 0, 0, 0))
-        shadow_image = self.__9patch_drop_shadow.render(mod_image.width, mod_image.height)
+        shadow_image = self.__9patch_drop_shadow.render(mod_image.width, mod_image.height,  Image.Resampling.LANCZOS)
         mod_image.paste(shadow_image, (0, 0), shadow_image)
         mod_image.paste(image, (0, 0))
         return mod_image