diff --git a/torchvision/utils.py b/torchvision/utils.py
index c810ce9ffa1..f07a3bb4016 100644
--- a/torchvision/utils.py
+++ b/torchvision/utils.py
@@ -100,6 +100,6 @@ def save_image(tensor, filename, nrow=8, padding=2,
     grid = make_grid(tensor, nrow=nrow, padding=padding, pad_value=pad_value,
                      normalize=normalize, range=range, scale_each=scale_each)
     # Add 0.5 after unnormalizing to [0, 255] to round to nearest integer
-    ndarr = grid.mul_(255).add_(0.5).clamp_(0, 255).permute(1, 2, 0).to('cpu', torch.uint8).numpy()
+    ndarr = grid.mul(255).add_(0.5).clamp_(0, 255).permute(1, 2, 0).to('cpu', torch.uint8).numpy()
     im = Image.fromarray(ndarr)
     im.save(filename)