diff --git a/src/mflux/controlnet/controlnet_util.py b/src/mflux/controlnet/controlnet_util.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..ab6a9c5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/mflux/controlnet/controlnet_util.py
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+import cv2
+import numpy as np
+import PIL
+
+
+class ControlnetUtil:
+
+    @staticmethod
+    def preprocess_canny(img: PIL.Image) -> PIL.Image:
+        image_to_canny = np.array(img)
+        image_to_canny = cv2.Canny(image_to_canny, 100, 200)
+        image_to_canny = np.array(image_to_canny[:, :, None])
+        image_to_canny = np.concatenate([image_to_canny, image_to_canny, image_to_canny], axis=2)
+        return PIL.Image.fromarray(image_to_canny)
diff --git a/src/mflux/controlnet/flux_controlnet.py b/src/mflux/controlnet/flux_controlnet.py
index 36e92bf..6d36e4a 100644
--- a/src/mflux/controlnet/flux_controlnet.py
+++ b/src/mflux/controlnet/flux_controlnet.py
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ from tqdm import tqdm
 from mflux.config.config import ConfigControlnet
 from mflux.config.model_config import ModelConfig
 from mflux.config.runtime_config import RuntimeConfig
-from mflux.controlnet.utils_controlnet import preprocess_canny
+from mflux.controlnet.controlnet_util import ControlnetUtil
 from mflux.models.text_encoder.clip_encoder.clip_encoder import CLIPEncoder
 from mflux.models.text_encoder.t5_encoder.t5_encoder import T5Encoder
 from mflux.models.transformer.embed_nd import EmbedND
@@ -114,7 +114,7 @@ class Flux1Controlnet:
             shape=[1, (config.height // 16) * (config.width // 16), 64],
             key=mx.random.key(seed)
         )
-        control_image = preprocess_canny(control_image)
+        control_image = ControlnetUtil.preprocess_canny(control_image)
         controlnet_cond = ImageUtil.to_array(control_image)
         controlnet_cong = self.vae.encode(controlnet_cond)
         # the rescaling in the next line is not in the huggingface code, but without it the images from 
diff --git a/src/mflux/controlnet/utils_controlnet.py b/src/mflux/controlnet/utils_controlnet.py
deleted file mode 100644
index 5de6b06..0000000
--- a/src/mflux/controlnet/utils_controlnet.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,10 +0,0 @@
-import cv2
-import numpy as np
-import PIL
-
-def preprocess_canny(img: PIL.Image) -> PIL.Image:
-    image_to_canny = np.array(img)
-    image_to_canny = cv2.Canny(image_to_canny, 100, 200)
-    image_to_canny = np.array(image_to_canny[:, :, None])
-    image_to_canny = np.concatenate([image_to_canny, image_to_canny, image_to_canny], axis=2)
-    return PIL.Image.fromarray(image_to_canny)