Laravel 5 Store Image from URL

I'm trying to store an image from a URL using Intervention to my storage.

Here is what I tried so far(Attempt 1):

$path = 'http://f2b9x.s87.it/images/1/FR_laura-kithorizontal.gif';
$filename = basename($path);
$image = Image::make($path);
$store = $image->storeAs('image/'.$filename,'public');

But I get this error: Command (storeAs) is not available for driver (Gd).

Then I tried this (Attempt 2):

Image::make('http://f2b9x.s87.it/images/1/FR_laura-kithorizontal.gif')->save(public_path('/images/saveAsImageName.jpg'));

But I got this error: Can't write image data to path (C:\xampp\htdocs\app\public\/images/saveAsImageName.jpg)

In Attempt 2, I tried doing also this: public_path('\images\saveAsImageName.jpg') just to make sure it wasn't the backslashes causing the problem, but it gave me the same error.

Any help?