diff --git a/image.d b/image.d
index cd5f5e3..2549975 100644
--- a/image.d
+++ b/image.d
@@ -231,7 +231,7 @@ public MemoryImage loadImageFromFile(T:const(char)[]) (T filename) {
         if (fsz < 4) throw new Exception("cannot determine file format");
         if (fsz > int.max/8) throw new Exception("image data too big");
         auto data = new ubyte[](cast(uint)fsz);
-        scope(exit) GC.free(data.ptr); // this should be safe, as image will copy data to it's internal storage
+        scope(exit) { import core.memory : GC; GC.free(data.ptr); } // this should be safe, as image will copy data to it's internal storage
         fl.rawReadExact(data);
         return loadImageFromMemory(data);
       case ImageFileFormat.Png: static if (is(T == string)) return readPng(filename); else return readPng(filename.idup);
@@ -279,7 +279,7 @@ public MemoryImage loadImageFromFile (VFile fl) {
   if (fsz < 4) throw new Exception("cannot determine file format");
   if (fsz > int.max/8) throw new Exception("image data too big");
   auto data = new ubyte[](cast(uint)fsz);
-  scope(exit) { GC.free(data.ptr); } // this should be safe, as image will copy data to it's internal storage
+  scope(exit) { import core.memory : GC; GC.free(data.ptr); } // this should be safe, as image will copy data to it's internal storage
   fl.rawReadExact(data);
   return loadImageFromMemory(data);
 }
diff --git a/png.d b/png.d
index e1ad455..60628aa 100644
--- a/png.d
+++ b/png.d
@@ -473,7 +473,7 @@ void writeImageToPngFile(in char[] filename, TrueColorImage image) {
 		fputc((c.checksum & 0x000000ff) >> 0, fp);
 	}
 
-	GC.free(com.ptr); // there is a reference to this in the PNG struct, but it is going out of scope here too, so who cares
+	{ import core.memory : GC; GC.free(com.ptr); } // there is a reference to this in the PNG struct, but it is going out of scope here too, so who cares
 	// just wanna make sure this crap doesn't stick around
 }