Creating overlapping text and image

Question

I am trying to make a title page for my master's thesis, and I want my name (written in text) and signature (with transparent background) slightly overlapping.

My thought was to adjust the distance between the picture and the text, but I don't know how.

\begin{figure}[h]
\centering
\includegraphics[width=0.35\textwidth]{Illustrations/signature-01.eps}
% adjust distance here to make the picture and the text overlap
\centerline{\large\normalfont\bfseries NAME}
\end{figure}

I have tried with captions as well, but I could not get rid of the caption label with the \caption* command. It seemed like it does not work when I am using memoir class and the sidecap package.

Working example

\documentclass[a4paper, twoside]{memoir}
% Packages (most of them)
\usepackage[english, danish]{babel}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{geometry}
\usepackage{gensymb}
% Titlepage
\newlength{\drop}%
\newcommand{\titleMS}{\begingroup% MS Thesis
\thispagestyle{empty}
\newgeometry{left=25mm,right=25mm}
\drop=0.1\textheight
\vspace{0.5\drop}
\centering
{\huge\sffamily\bfseries
UNIVERSITY \
\Large\sffamily\mdseries Department}\[2\baselineskip]
{\LARGE\sffamily\bfseries TITLE}\par
\vfill
{\Large Master's Thesis\ 30 \textsc{ects} points}\par
\vfill
{\large \textbf{Author}\
NAME\
EDUCATION\
\textbf{Supervisors}\
NAME AND TITLE\
\textbf{Submitted}\
DATE}\par
\vspace{\drop}
\begin{figure}[h]
\centering
\includegraphics[width=0.35\textwidth]{Illustrations/signature-01.eps}
% adjust distance here to make the picture and the text overlap
\centerline{\large\normalfont\bfseries NAME}
\end{figure}
\vspace*{\drop}
\endgroup
\pagebreak
\restoregeometry}
\begin{document}
\fontfamily{pplj}\selectfont
\selectlanguage{english}
\titleMS
my\end{document}

Don't get rid of the caption, get rid of the whole figure environment. It is only disturbing here. — Johannes_B, Oct 03 '14 at 20:46
\includegraphics[width=0.35\textwidth]{example-image.pdf} \par \vspace{-1cm} \centerline{\large\normalfont\bfseries NAME} replace the figure by yours. Make sure there is a \par. — Johannes_B, Oct 03 '14 at 20:50
Here is a good example: Simplest way to overlay a text + rectangle label an image? — Werner, Oct 03 '14 at 21:04
Also the \stackinset macro of the stackengine package can do this. — Steven B. Segletes, Oct 03 '14 at 21:51
Alternately, From the left or right use \rlap or \llap. From the bottom or top use \raisebox{some distance}[0pt][0pt]{text} — John Kormylo, Oct 04 '14 at 04:16

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 13 '15 at 16:35

We can use the command for spacing out parts here as well, but we give it a negative space. I tried to clean the code a bit.

As you want to have extra margins for the titlepage, you can completely drop memoir here, do your titlepage and include it in the thesis. There is really no use for toubling with margins.

christofferTitlepage

\documentclass[a4paper]{article}

\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{geometry}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\geometry{margin=25mm}

\newlength{\drop}%
\newcommand*{\titleMS}{
    \begin{titlepage}
\fontfamily{pplj}\selectfont
    \drop=0.1\textheight
    \vspace*{0.5\drop}
    \centering
    {\huge\sffamily\bfseries
        UNIVERSITY \par
    \Large\sffamily\mdseries Department\par}
    \vspace{2\baselineskip}
    {\LARGE\sffamily\bfseries TITLE\par}
    \vfill
    {\Large Master's Thesis\\ 30 \textsc{ects} points\par}
    \vfill
    {\large \textbf{Author}\par
    NAME\par
    EDUCATION\par
    \textbf{Supervisors}\par
    NAME AND TITLE\par
    \textbf{Submitted}\par
DATE\par}

\vspace{\drop}

    % adjust distance here to make the picture and the text overlap
%\includegraphics[width=.35\linewidth]{example-image-a}\par
{\color{gray!50}\fontsize{40pt}{56pt}\usefont{T1}{qzc}{m}{it} Christoffer\par}
\vspace{-.7\baselineskip}
    {\large\normalfont\bfseries NAME\par}
\end{titlepage}
}
\begin{document}
\titleMS
\end{document}

Creating overlapping text and image

Working example

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