diff --git a/lodgeit/lib/captcha.py b/lodgeit/lib/captcha.py
index 85df593..9fe2b62 100644
--- a/lodgeit/lib/captcha.py
+++ b/lodgeit/lib/captcha.py
@@ -151,7 +151,7 @@ class TextLayer(Layer):
         # draw grayscale image white on black
         text_image = Image.new('L', image.size, 0)
         draw = ImageDraw.Draw(text_image)
-        text_size = self.font.getsize(self.text)
+        text_size = self.font.getbbox(self.text)
         x = int((image.size[0] - text_size[0]) * self.alignment[0] + 0.5)
         y = int((image.size[1] - text_size[1]) * self.alignment[1] + 0.5)
         draw.text((x, y), self.text, font=self.font,
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 9070691..28b25cf 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -7,6 +7,6 @@ SQLAlchemy<2.0.0
 PyMySQL
 simplejson
 Babel
-pillow
+pillow>=9.5
 pytz
 MarkupSafe