Revert "Merge pull request #10 from baffolobill/patch-1"

This reverts commit e3d5881d51154948b9f0f849635bff7175b73073, reversing
changes made to 1bc07a23332da7c473037c4dcaf84720b4f6408a.

Apparently PIL doesn't like what we're doing.

Related: GH-10, GH-11
Bump version to 1.1.8