AP GraphicsBank serves as a powerful supplement to your art department's archives. We provide sharp, customisable images that are difficult to find from any other source. Your designers can select individual elements, or they can save precious time by downloading a finished graphic. Images can be viewed and retrieved 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Our goal is to make life easier for your designers, so they save time and your station saves money.

AP GraphicsBank images are copyright cleared for use in international broadcast and online news coverage. Once you've downloaded an image, it's yours to use in your news broadcasts whenever you want.

Using your station's image processing software, your designers can create graphics in your station's house style, adding local language titles. Image colour, texture and brightness can all be brought in line with your station's unique on-air look.

Getting the Most From Your Graphics Team

A designer's "tool kit":

Graphic elements (components on black backgrounds, from which to build completed graphics)

Mattes (black backgrounds with cut-outs corresponding to graphic elements, used to combine elements for composite graphics)

Backgrounds (a selection of textures over which to layer graphic elements)

Finished graphics, without text · Finished graphics, with English text