How to insert a picture without the name "figure"

Question

I am trying to put a figure with a subtitle but without the name "figure".

For example:

triangle

'This is a triangle'

and not put the name "Figure":

enter image description here

'Figure: This is a triangle'

I tried:

1.

\begin{figure}
\begin{center}
\includegraphics[scale=*]{fig.jpg}
\caption{*}
\end{center}
\end{figure}

2.

\begin{frame}
\includegraphics[scale=*]{fig.jpg}
\caption{*}
\end{frame}

And neither have worked.

Just don't use \caption and add the text as a normal paragraph. — David Carlisle, May 17 '14 at 16:58
@PoliTolstov: You need to include the caption package in your preamble. Did you do that? — Werner, May 17 '14 at 17:58
my document class is beamer... I am wondering if that is the problem! — Poli Tolstov, May 17 '14 at 21:40
@PoliTolstov I double checked. The suggested solution works with beamer as well, flawlessly. Are you sure that you really have the command \usepackage{caption} in preamble? You said that you "has this package", which is somewhat inconclusive, I must say. — Masroor, May 17 '14 at 23:49
The above discussion emphasises why we want you to supply a proper MWE, @PoliTolstov — Holene, Nov 05 '19 at 16:22

score 11 · Answer 1 · answered May 17 '14 at 17:42

Use the \caption* command from caption package.

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{graphicx}

\usepackage{caption}

\begin{document}

\begin{figure}
  \centering
  \includegraphics{fig.jpg}
  \caption{This is a triangle.}
  \label{fig:tr1}
\end{figure}


\begin{figure}
  \centering
  \includegraphics{fig.jpg}
  \caption*{This is also a triangle.}
  \label{fig:tr2}
\end{figure}

\end{document}

enter image description here

score 8 · Answer 2 · answered May 17 '14 at 22:24

Within a presentation (like beamer) there is very little need to have enumerated captions for images. Regardless, there is no need to always use a (floating) figure environment for including graphics, nor is it necessary to use \caption inside figure.

I would suggest merely using the center environment to center the object and add a piece of text below it to act like the caption:

enter image description here

\documentclass{beamer}
\let\Tiny\tiny% http://tex.stackexchange.com/q/58087/5764
\usepackage{graphicx}
\begin{document}

\begin{frame}
  This is text.

  \begin{center}
    \includegraphics[width=.5\linewidth]{example-image}

    This is a rectangle
  \end{center}

  Here is some more text.
\end{frame}

\end{document}

score 3 · Answer 3 · answered May 19 '14 at 09:09

Another possibility is to customise the caption itself. Like this you can keep your syntax.

\documentclass{beamer}
\usepackage{graphicx}

\setbeamertemplate{caption}{\insertcaption}

\begin{document}

    \begin{frame}
        This is text.

        \begin{figure}
            \includegraphics[width=.5\linewidth]{example-image}
            \caption{This is a rectangle}
        \end{figure}

        Here is some more text.
    \end{frame}

\end{document}

enter image description here

How to insert a picture without the name "figure"

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