diff --git a/app/Services/ImageGenerationService.php b/app/Services/ImageGenerationService.php
index f513e05..76be3bb 100644
--- a/app/Services/ImageGenerationService.php
+++ b/app/Services/ImageGenerationService.php
@@ -72,6 +72,12 @@ class ImageGenerationService
                 ->offsetY($imageSettings['offset_y'])
                 ->outputPath($outputPath);
 
+            // Apply dithering if requested by markup
+            $shouldDither = self::markupContainsDitherImage($markup);
+            if ($shouldDither) {
+                $imageStage->dither();
+            }
+
             (new TrmnlPipeline())->pipe($browserStage)
                 ->pipe($imageStage)
                 ->process();
@@ -209,6 +215,31 @@ class ImageGenerationService
         };
     }
 
+    /**
+     * Detect whether the provided HTML markup contains an <img> tag with class "image-dither".
+     */
+    private static function markupContainsDitherImage(string $markup): bool
+    {
+        if (mb_trim($markup) === '') {
+            return false;
+        }
+
+        // Find <img ... class="..."> (or with single quotes) and inspect class tokens
+        $imgWithClassPattern = '/<img\b[^>]*\bclass\s*=\s*(["\'])(.*?)\1[^>]*>/i';
+        if (! preg_match_all($imgWithClassPattern, $markup, $matches)) {
+            return false;
+        }
+
+        foreach ($matches[2] as $classValue) {
+            // Look for class token 'image-dither' or 'image--dither'
+            if (preg_match('/(?:^|\s)image--?dither(?:\s|$)/', $classValue)) {
+                return true;
+            }
+        }
+
+        return false;
+    }
+
     public static function cleanupFolder(): void
     {
         $activeDeviceImageUuids = Device::pluck('current_screen_image')->filter()->toArray();
diff --git a/composer.json b/composer.json
index 0d3fc42..79306ce 100644
--- a/composer.json
+++ b/composer.json
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
         "ext-simplexml": "*",
         "ext-zip": "*",
         "bnussbau/laravel-trmnl-blade": "2.0.*",
-        "bnussbau/trmnl-pipeline-php": "^0.3.0",
+        "bnussbau/trmnl-pipeline-php": "^0.4.0",
         "keepsuit/laravel-liquid": "^0.5.2",
         "laravel/framework": "^12.1",
         "laravel/sanctum": "^4.0",
diff --git a/composer.lock b/composer.lock
index e1f0d77..2f54904 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": "d6d201899ecc5b1243e9a481c22c5732",
+    "content-hash": "3d743ce4dc2742c59ed6f9cc8ed36e04",
     "packages": [
         {
             "name": "aws/aws-crt-php",
@@ -243,16 +243,16 @@
         },
         {
             "name": "bnussbau/trmnl-pipeline-php",
-            "version": "0.3.2",
+            "version": "0.4.0",
             "source": {
                 "type": "git",
                 "url": "https://github.com/bnussbau/trmnl-pipeline-php.git",
-                "reference": "ead26a45ac919e3f2a5f4a448508a919cd3258d3"
+                "reference": "b58b937f36e55aa7cbd4859cbe7a902bf1050bf8"
             },
             "dist": {
                 "type": "zip",
-                "url": "https://api.github.com/repos/bnussbau/trmnl-pipeline-php/zipball/ead26a45ac919e3f2a5f4a448508a919cd3258d3",
-                "reference": "ead26a45ac919e3f2a5f4a448508a919cd3258d3",
+                "url": "https://api.github.com/repos/bnussbau/trmnl-pipeline-php/zipball/b58b937f36e55aa7cbd4859cbe7a902bf1050bf8",
+                "reference": "b58b937f36e55aa7cbd4859cbe7a902bf1050bf8",
                 "shasum": ""
             },
             "require": {
@@ -294,7 +294,7 @@
             ],
             "support": {
                 "issues": "https://github.com/bnussbau/trmnl-pipeline-php/issues",
-                "source": "https://github.com/bnussbau/trmnl-pipeline-php/tree/0.3.2"
+                "source": "https://github.com/bnussbau/trmnl-pipeline-php/tree/0.4.0"
             },
             "funding": [
                 {
@@ -310,7 +310,7 @@
                     "type": "github"
                 }
             ],
-            "time": "2025-10-17T12:12:40+00:00"
+            "time": "2025-10-30T11:52:17+00:00"
         },
         {
             "name": "brick/math",