I'm not sure about this but you can try.

$fileType = File::type($pathToImage);

$response = Response::make( File::get($pathToImage), 200);

$response->header("Content-Type", $fileType);

return $response;

I don't think you can pass the $img object directly, as it's an Intervention\Image object, not image data.

I think you can encode it however, before passing it to your response:

$img = Image::make('tmp/test.jpg');
return Response::make($img->encode('jpg'), 200, ['Content-Type' => 'image/jpeg']);

Good luck!

I had the same problem recently.. This works perfectly:

$img = Image::make('tmp/test.jpg');
return $img->response();

FYI, in Laravel 5, in your controlller:

$finfo = finfo_open(FILEINFO_MIME_TYPE);
$mime = finfo_file($finfo, $path);
finfo_close($finfo);
	
// CSS files return incorrect mime type, so fix this
$path_parts = pathinfo($path);
if ($path_parts['extension'] == "css")
{
    $mime = "text/css";
}
		
$response = response(file_get_contents($path), 200)->header('Content-Type', $mime);

return $response;

this works for me for images, html, js and css