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Benefits and features of AP GraphicsBank

GraphicsBank

When other graphic services have quit for the day, AP is at the ready. With 300,000 images and growing by the minute, GraphicsBank provides visuals for today's breaking news and tomorrow's features. Use partial elements as a baseline for creating your own graphics, or drop finished versions directly into your broadcast or Web site.

AP GraphicsBank Delivers

Hard-to-find images, finished graphics and partial elements, too, GraphicsBank provides stations with an extraordinary variety of images for on-air or online use.

GraphicsBank is backed by the full newsgathering resources of The Associated Press, drawing elements from AP's unmatched archives and daily photo and video content. And when news breaks, you can count on AP to have new graphics ready in a flash.

GraphicsBank is an easy-to-use online database that offers headshots of newsmakers from around the world, country and state flags, maps, corporate and sports team logos, skylines, landmarks, and generic images such as aircraft, buildings, animals, cars and much more.

With just a few clicks, your artists can use our individual graphic elements as components in their own designs, or they can save time by selecting from among our many finished graphics. Many images are available with matching mattes, eliminating the need for time-consuming manual labor. GraphicsBank also means never having to scour the Web for usable images, and never having to worry about copyright clearance. With all the time it saves you, having GraphicsBank is like having additional people on staff.

If you also subscribe to the new AP Multimedia Wire, you'll have access to a graphics-generation tool that allows you to compile finished graphics in your station's own style.

User Friendly, On Air or Online

Search for the images you want – by subject, name, or image type, or view the most recent additions
Use our Speed Search feature for quick access to popular or hard-to-spell search keywords
View thumbnails, larger preview images and captions
Select the resolution that's right for your on-air broadcast or your Web site
Download and adjust if necessary to fit your station's style

Graphics Share

GraphicsShare is a value-added benefit that allows you to share graphics with other users and stations within your news enterprise, helping your organization maximize resources and improve workflow.

Once you have downloaded an image, there is no need for someone within your station or group to download it again. Store downloaded images in a private and protected area on the site, designated for your news organization. There, your colleagues can access your images, allowing them to use that image as is or build upon it.

ENPS / GraphicsBank Integration

GraphicsBank subscribers who also use AP's Electronic News Production System (ENPS) can reap the benefits of improved workflow via our product integration.

When reading or editing news stories in ENPS, you will see hot links to corresponding images in GraphicsBank when available. With the click of a mouse, you can easily preview and then download graphics developed for that particular story. This time-saving feature creates efficiencies and improves your newsroom workflow.

Technical Requirements

A Windows, Macintosh or Unix PC
Internet connection
Standard Web browser, such as Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0 or later, Firefox 1.1 or later, and other major browsers.
Image processing software capable of handling JPEG images

Find completed images or individual elements in seconds; everything you need to visually tell the story on any subject.

GraphicsBank is the graphics standard in the TV news industry, offering more graphic elements than any other television graphics service. The service includes hundreds of thousands of head shots of newsmakers and celebrities, business and sports logos, maps, flags, military hardware and armaments, generic image elements and texture backgrounds.

Save time and effort with the highest quality images at your fingertips, for use on air or online.

Photos and images are offered in several resolutions from high definition to low resolution for maximum selection. Many images include pre-built mattes. All images are created by AP's professional graphics staff, applying a uniform standard of quality throughout.

Breaking news coverage

The GraphicsBank staff is in tune with what's moving on the AP news wires. When news breaks, they work quickly to make sure you have graphics to tell the story.

Use all GraphicsBank images with clearance confidence.

All GraphicsBank images are copyright-cleared in advance by AP.

Find images quickly and easily during the hectic broadcast day.

Safe, secure and simple internet delivery. Easy access through a password-protected Web site. Search with keywords, browse low resolution previews and then download only those images you need.

Enhance efficiency. Share graphics across a group of licensed stations, with centralized graphic creation and unlimited storage.

GraphicsShare offers a secure area of GraphicsBank for licensed groups wanting to centrally create, store, and share graphics across all stations in the group