Showcases and Featured Events:

Check on the AP Images homepage to find groupings of current event images. The images are automatically selected and are updated every 36 hours.

Basic Search:

• Search for Editorial Images
  • Choose from: All Photos, Sports, Entertainment, US Domestic News, International News, Financial News
  • Historical photos date from 1996 back to the 1800s
• Audio
• More Media
  • Print Graphics
  • Text Archives
• Search for APTOPIX to find the top picks of AP editors 
• Searched by pre-defined concepts. The concept corresponds the idea the photograph is displaying. Searchable concepts are:
  • adulation, aggression, amusement, anger, bizarre, boredom, burden, celebration, cold, comic, concentration, concern, confinement, confrontation, content, contrast, curious, cute, defeat, deserted, despair, destruction, determined, devout, diligence, dry, enjoyment, excitement, family, fear, freedom, friendship, grief, happy, hot, humor, isolation, lonely, love, mature, meditative, pain, passion, peaceful, pensive, poor, power, pride, reverence, searching, serene, hock, solemn, spacious, speed, stark, strong, suffer, surprise, tension, thin, tired, tranquil, vanity, violent, weak, wealth, wet, wonder and youth. 
  • Example: celebration:concept
• Search by dominant color. The 10 hues represented in the database are:
  • blue, red, yellow, green, orange, white, black, brown, purple and pink.  
  • Example: yellow:hue
• Search for “Obit” to find photos of people who have passed away or “Obit: person’s name” for specific person

Advanced Search:

• Limit your search by
  • Arrived Within-to find images that were added to the database during a specific period of time
  • Created Between
  • People-the people in the image
  • Event-you can enter a specific event or just click on the "Group" box to see your search results sorted by event
  • Source-most images are from AP but there are some from other sources.
  • Photographer
  • City, State, Country
  • Image ID
  • Orientation: vertical, horizontal, or both
  • Color: black and white, color, or both

Graphics:

• Within graphics you can search for logos, "how-to" home improvement projects, indexes, and house of the week with drafting plans
• To search for graphics in Spanish, use the keyword "grafico" or "Spangraph"
  • Example:
    
    • grafico and ciudad
    • grafico and misione
• To search for graphics in German, type the word "grafik" or enter your search term in German
• To find a timeline, search for "timeline and your topic"
  • Example:
    • timeline and Iraq
    • timeline and Haig
    • timeline and senate
• To find home improvement projects, use the keyword "apnh" (Associated Press on the House).
  • Example:
    • apnh and window
      

Navigating the Results:

• Click on the orange hypertext in the results to refines your search
•  Click on image to see image details (metadata)

Saving:

• Downloaded images have no watermark but when you use the quick save function images will have a watermark
• Multiple images will download as a zip file.