diff --git a/composer.json b/composer.json
index 8ba4092d3..361dd7e48 100644
--- a/composer.json
+++ b/composer.json
@@ -22,12 +22,14 @@
     "ext-fileinfo": "*",
     "ext-gd": "*",
     "ext-mbstring": "*",
+    "ext-ffi": "*",
     "benjaminhoegh/parsedown-toc": "^1.5",
     "cecil/resource-watcher": "^4.0",
     "cocur/slugify": "^4.6",
     "dflydev/dot-access-data": "^3.0",
     "erusev/parsedown-extra": "^0.8",
     "intervention/image": "^3.11",
+    "intervention/image-driver-vips": "^1.0",
     "james-heinrich/getid3": "^1.9",
     "laravel-zero/phar-updater": "^1.4",
     "matthiasmullie/minify": "^1.3",
@@ -79,7 +81,8 @@
       "ergebnis/composer-normalize": true
     },
     "platform": {
-      "php": "8.1.32"
+      "php": "8.1.32",
+      "ext-ffi": "3.4.5"
     },
     "sort-packages": true
   },
diff --git a/composer.lock b/composer.lock
index 3b298dbc7..f5e0772da 100644
--- a/composer.lock
+++ b/composer.lock
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
         "Read more about it at https://getcomposer.org/doc/01-basic-usage.md#installing-dependencies",
         "This file is @generated automatically"
     ],
-    "content-hash": "426abc751976db888fb6c16e8581e5cd",
+    "content-hash": "e89ecd37987479faf7b78f78a70d8577",
     "packages": [
         {
             "name": "benjaminhoegh/parsedown-toc",
@@ -531,6 +531,80 @@
             ],
             "time": "2025-07-30T13:13:19+00:00"
         },
+        {
+            "name": "intervention/image-driver-vips",
+            "version": "1.0.6",
+            "source": {
+                "type": "git",
+                "url": "https://github.com/Intervention/image-driver-vips.git",
+                "reference": "67f92c78cbe94a303f28d7ed84afd464eefac7aa"
+            },
+            "dist": {
+                "type": "zip",
+                "url": "https://api.github.com/repos/Intervention/image-driver-vips/zipball/67f92c78cbe94a303f28d7ed84afd464eefac7aa",
+                "reference": "67f92c78cbe94a303f28d7ed84afd464eefac7aa",
+                "shasum": ""
+            },
+            "require": {
+                "intervention/image": "^3.11.0",
+                "jcupitt/vips": "^2.4",
+                "php": "^8.1"
+            },
+            "require-dev": {
+                "ext-fileinfo": "*",
+                "phpstan/phpstan": "^2",
+                "phpunit/phpunit": "^10.0 || ^11.0 || ^12.0",
+                "slevomat/coding-standard": "~8.0",
+                "squizlabs/php_codesniffer": "^3.8"
+            },
+            "type": "library",
+            "autoload": {
+                "psr-4": {
+                    "Intervention\\Image\\Drivers\\Vips\\": "src"
+                }
+            },
+            "notification-url": "https://packagist.org/downloads/",
+            "license": [
+                "MIT"
+            ],
+            "authors": [
+                {
+                    "name": "Oliver Vogel",
+                    "email": "oliver@intervention.io",
+                    "homepage": "https://intervention.io/"
+                },
+                {
+                    "name": "Thomas Picquet",
+                    "email": "thomas@sctr.net"
+                }
+            ],
+            "description": "libvips driver for Intervention Image",
+            "homepage": "https://image.intervention.io/",
+            "keywords": [
+                "image",
+                "libvips",
+                "vips"
+            ],
+            "support": {
+                "issues": "https://github.com/Intervention/image-driver-vips/issues",
+                "source": "https://github.com/Intervention/image-driver-vips/tree/1.0.6"
+            },
+            "funding": [
+                {
+                    "url": "https://paypal.me/interventionio",
+                    "type": "custom"
+                },
+                {
+                    "url": "https://github.com/Intervention",
+                    "type": "github"
+                },
+                {
+                    "url": "https://ko-fi.com/interventionphp",
+                    "type": "ko_fi"
+                }
+            ],
+            "time": "2025-06-10T14:30:21+00:00"
+        },
         {
             "name": "james-heinrich/getid3",
             "version": "v1.9.23",
@@ -598,6 +672,67 @@
             },
             "time": "2023-10-19T13:18:49+00:00"
         },
+        {
+            "name": "jcupitt/vips",
+            "version": "v2.5.0",
+            "source": {
+                "type": "git",
+                "url": "https://github.com/libvips/php-vips.git",
+                "reference": "a54c1cceea581b592a199edd61a7c06f44a24c08"
+            },
+            "dist": {
+                "type": "zip",
+                "url": "https://api.github.com/repos/libvips/php-vips/zipball/a54c1cceea581b592a199edd61a7c06f44a24c08",
+                "reference": "a54c1cceea581b592a199edd61a7c06f44a24c08",
+                "shasum": ""
+            },
+            "require": {
+                "ext-ffi": "*",
+                "php": ">=7.4",
+                "psr/log": "^1.1.3|^2.0|^3.0"
+            },
+            "require-dev": {
+                "php-parallel-lint/php-parallel-lint": "^1.3",
+                "phpdocumentor/shim": "^3.3",
+                "phpunit/phpunit": "^9.5",
+                "squizlabs/php_codesniffer": "^3.7"
+            },
+            "type": "library",
+            "extra": {
+                "branch-alias": {
+                    "dev-master": "2.0.x-dev"
+                }
+            },
+            "autoload": {
+                "psr-4": {
+                    "Jcupitt\\Vips\\": "src"
+                }
+            },
+            "notification-url": "https://packagist.org/downloads/",
+            "license": [
+                "MIT"
+            ],
+            "authors": [
+                {
+                    "name": "John Cupitt",
+                    "email": "jcupitt@gmail.com",
+                    "homepage": "https://github.com/jcupitt",
+                    "role": "Developer"
+                }
+            ],
+            "description": "A high-level interface to the libvips image processing library.",
+            "homepage": "https://github.com/libvips/php-vips",
+            "keywords": [
+                "image",
+                "libvips",
+                "processing"
+            ],
+            "support": {
+                "issues": "https://github.com/libvips/php-vips/issues",
+                "source": "https://github.com/libvips/php-vips/tree/v2.5.0"
+            },
+            "time": "2025-04-04T17:10:13+00:00"
+        },
         {
             "name": "laravel-zero/phar-updater",
             "version": "v1.4.0",
@@ -9019,11 +9154,13 @@
         "php": "^8.1||^8.2||^8.3||^8.4",
         "ext-fileinfo": "*",
         "ext-gd": "*",
-        "ext-mbstring": "*"
+        "ext-mbstring": "*",
+        "ext-ffi": "*"
     },
     "platform-dev": {},
     "platform-overrides": {
-        "php": "8.1.32"
+        "php": "8.1.32",
+        "ext-ffi": "3.4.5"
     },
     "plugin-api-version": "2.6.0"
 }
diff --git a/src/Asset/Image.php b/src/Asset/Image.php
index 7c6c42906..bd08d13bd 100644
--- a/src/Asset/Image.php
+++ b/src/Asset/Image.php
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@
 use Cecil\Exception\RuntimeException;
 use Intervention\Image\Drivers\Gd\Driver as GdDriver;
 use Intervention\Image\Drivers\Imagick\Driver as ImagickDriver;
+use Intervention\Image\Drivers\Vips\Driver as VipsDriver;
 use Intervention\Image\Encoders\AutoEncoder;
 use Intervention\Image\ImageManager;
 
@@ -27,24 +28,34 @@
  * and generating data URLs.
  *
  * This class uses the Intervention Image library to handle image processing.
- * It supports both GD and Imagick drivers, depending on the available PHP extensions.
+ * It supports GD, Imagick and Vips drivers, depending on the available PHP extensions.
  */
 class Image
 {
     /**
-     * Create new manager instance with available driver.
+     * Create new manager instance with available driver, faster first.
      */
     private static function manager(): ImageManager
     {
         $driver = null;
 
-        // ImageMagick is available? (for a future quality option)
-        if (\extension_loaded('imagick') && class_exists('Imagick')) {
-            $driver = ImagickDriver::class;
+        // use Imagick for better quality
+        /*if (\extension_loaded('imagick') && class_exists('Imagick')) {
+            $driver = new ImagickDriver();
+        }*/
+        // libvips is the fastest driver (if FFI is available)
+        if (\extension_loaded('ffi')) {
+            ini_set('ffi.enable', 'true');
+            $driver = new VipsDriver();
+            try {
+                $driver->checkHealth();
+            } catch (\Intervention\Image\Exceptions\DriverException) {
+                $driver = null;
+            }
         }
-        // Use GD, because it's the faster driver
-        if (\extension_loaded('gd') && \function_exists('gd_info')) {
-            $driver = GdDriver::class;
+        // GD by default
+        if ($driver === null && \extension_loaded('gd') && \function_exists('gd_info')) {
+            $driver = new GdDriver();
         }
 
         if ($driver) {
@@ -59,7 +70,7 @@ private static function manager(): ImageManager
             );
         }
 
-        throw new RuntimeException('PHP GD (or Imagick) extension is required.');
+        throw new RuntimeException('PHP GD extension is required.');
     }
 
     /**
@@ -213,8 +224,15 @@ public static function getDominantColor(Asset $asset): string
             $image = self::manager()->read(self::resize($asset, 100, 50));
 
             return $image->reduceColors(1)->pickColor(0, 0)->toString();
-        } catch (\Exception $e) {
-            throw new RuntimeException(\sprintf('Can\'t get dominant color of "%s": %s', $asset['path'], $e->getMessage()));
+        } catch (\Exception) {
+            // fallback to GD driver
+            try {
+                $image = ImageManager::withDriver(GdDriver::class)->read(self::resize($asset, 100, 50));
+
+                return $image->reduceColors(1)->pickColor(0, 0)->toString();
+            } catch (\Exception $e) {
+                throw new RuntimeException(\sprintf('Can\'t get dominant color of "%s": %s', $asset['path'], $e->getMessage()));
+            }
         }
     }