diff --git a/wdtagger/__init__.py b/wdtagger/__init__.py
index 3494ba1..7651dd5 100644
--- a/wdtagger/__init__.py
+++ b/wdtagger/__init__.py
@@ -183,7 +183,7 @@ class Tagger:
         self.model_target_size = None
         self.cache_dir = cache_dir
         self.hf_token = hf_token
-        self.load_model(model_repo, cache_dir, hf_token)
+        self.load_model(model_repo, cache_dir, hf_token, num_threads=8)
 
     def load_model(
         self, model_repo, cache_dir=None, hf_token=None, num_threads: int = None
@@ -252,9 +252,9 @@ class Tagger:
                 (target_size, target_size),
                 Image.BICUBIC,
             )
-
-        return np.asarray(padded_image, dtype=np.float32)
-
+        array = np.asarray(padded_image, dtype=np.float32)
+        array = array[:, :, [2, 1, 0]]
+        return array
     def tag(
         self,
         image: Image.Image | list[Image.Image],