Installation¶

Add the django-anchor package to your dependencies. You can do this by running:
```
pip install django-anchor
```
or by adding django-anchor to your requirements.txt or pyproject.toml files if you have one.

If you intend to transform images you’ll also need to install Pillow. See below for more details.
Add anchor to settings.INSTALLED_APPS

Add URL configuration to your project:

urlpatterns = [
    path('anchor/', include('anchor.urls')),
]

Run migrations:
```
python manage.py migrate
```

By default, Anchor works with your default storage backend. If you want to use a different storage backend, define it under STORAGES in your project settings and set ANCHOR['DEFAULT_STORAGE_BACKEND'] to the name of your preferred storage backend.

Check out the full configuration options in configuration.

Additional dependencies for image transformations¶

Using Anchor to generate representations of images requires the Pillow Python package. You can add it to your dependencies, and there’s no need to add anything to the INSTALLED_APPS setting.

Keep in mind that while Pillow is a powerful library with lots of available operations, Anchor only supports a handful of them. Check out the PillowProcessor documentation for a list of supported operations.