Command (getRealPath) is not available for driver (Gd) when uploading image to s3. (sorry. repeat question. previous one was accidentally marked correct)

I'm saving the image to s3 and the s3 path to my databse. I'm calling the path when I need to show the image. So right now I'm having trouble resizing that image before saving it to s3. I get this error message:

Command (getRealPath) is not available for driver (Gd). this is what my controller looks like

public function up(Request $request) {

$user = $request->user();
$image= $request->file('images');

  if(!empty(($image))){
   $files = Input::file('images');
   foreach($files as $file) {
    if(!empty($file)){

    $ext = $file->getClientOriginalExtension();

    $media = ($user->media->where('category','profile')->first());
    if($media == null){
        $media = new Media();
        $media->category='profile';
    }       
        $this->saveMedia($media, $user,$file);
    }
}
    return Redirect::back()->with('message','Your profile has been updated');
}

} private function saveMedia($media, $user, $file){

$ext = $file->getClientOriginalExtension();
$key = strtotime('now') . '.' . $ext;        
$id = $user->id;
$url = 'https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/makersbrand/' . $id . '/' . $media->category . '/';
$media->user_id = $user->id;
$media->path = $url . $key;

$this->fillMedia($media,$user,$file, $key);
$media->save();

}

private function fillMedia($media, $user, $file, $key)
{
    $file = Image::make($file)->resize(200,200);
    $s3 = AWS::createClient('s3');
   $result = $s3->putObject(array(
    'Bucket' => self::$_BUCKET_NAME,
    'Key' => $user->id . '/'. $media->category .'/'. $key,
    'SourceFile' => $file->getRealPath(),
    'Metadata' => array(
    'Owner' => $user->first_name .' ' . $user->last_name
    )
    ));

} Update I don't think my images even get resized properly before it hits the getClientOriginalExtension error. When I do var_dump after resizing, I get this text:

 object(Intervention\Image\Image)#238 (9) { ["driver":protected]=> 
object(Intervention\Image\Gd\Driver)#237 (2) { ["decoder"]=> 
object(Intervention\Image\Gd\Decoder)#241 (1) { 
["data":"Intervention\Image\AbstractDecoder":private]=> NULL } 
["encoder"]=> object(Intervention\Image\Gd\Encoder)#242 (4) { ["result"]=> 
NULL ["image"]=> NULL ["format"]=> NULL ["quality"]=> NULL } } 
["core":protected]=> resource(280) of type (gd) ["backups":protected]=> 
array(0) { } ["encoded"]=> string(0) "" ["mime"]=> string(10) "image/jpeg" 
["dirname"]=> string(26) "/Applications/MAMP/tmp/php" ["basename"]=> 
string(9) "phpVGzVk0" ["extension"]=> NULL ["filename"]=> string(9)
 "phpVGzVk0" }

Result is null. Format is null. image is Null. What am I doing wrong here?