diff --git a/modules/color/color.install b/modules/color/color.install
index 5705ade..a1879f9 100644
--- a/modules/color/color.install
+++ b/modules/color/color.install
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ function color_requirements($phase) {
         $requirements['color_gd']['severity'] = REQUIREMENT_OK;
       }
       else {
-        $requirements['color_gd']['severity'] = REQUIREMENT_ERROR;
+        $requirements['color_gd']['severity'] = REQUIREMENT_WARNING;
         $requirements['color_gd']['description'] = t('The GD library for PHP is enabled, but was compiled without PNG support. Check the <a href="@url">PHP image documentation</a> for information on how to correct this.', array('@url' => 'http://www.php.net/manual/ref.image.php'));
       }
     }
diff --git a/modules/image/image.install b/modules/image/image.install
index 121e8c7..6f37ad0 100644
--- a/modules/image/image.install
+++ b/modules/image/image.install
@@ -164,7 +164,7 @@ function image_requirements($phase) {
         $requirements['image_gd']['severity'] = REQUIREMENT_OK;
       }
       else {
-        $requirements['image_gd']['severity'] = REQUIREMENT_ERROR;
+        $requirements['image_gd']['severity'] = REQUIREMENT_WARNING;
         $requirements['image_gd']['description'] = t('The GD Library for PHP is enabled, but was compiled without support for functions used by the rotate and desaturate effects. It was probably compiled using the official GD libraries from http://www.libgd.org instead of the GD library bundled with PHP. You should recompile PHP --with-gd using the bundled GD library. See <a href="http://www.php.net/manual/book.image.php">the PHP manual</a>.');
       }
     }