How to add a picture in TeX (a jpeg)?

Question

I saved the jpeg file in the same place where all my TeX files are placed at; which commands should I be using to make the pic appear?

I am using Bakoma TeX 11.85, but I believe it's the same in every software of TeX, but I may be wrong.

Does this answer your question? How to use \includegraphics? — steve, Apr 24 '20 at 19:06
Or, other related questions: How to insert a JPEG picture using LaTeX, Which graphics formats can be included in documents processed by latex or pdflatex?, How to use \graphicspath?, How to insert images with graphicx?, etc. — steve, Apr 24 '20 at 19:08

Eddymage · Answer 1 · 2020-04-24T20:03:57.920

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You may use the package graphicx: https://ctan.org/pkg/graphicx.

It can be employed for a wide range of image types (jpg, png, eps...) and moreover has a lot of useful options to deal with images, such as

\includegraphics[scale=0.5]{IMAGE.jpg} it halves the size of the image. You can choose any percentage, even greater than 1.
\includegraphics[width=0.5\textwidth]{IMAGE.jpg} it rescales the image by setting its width as the 50% of the text width and automatically adjust the height to maintain the proportion. You can choose any percentage: for example, \includegraphics[width=0.1\textwidth]{IMAGE.jpg} set the width as 1/10 of the textwidth.
\includegraphics[height=0.5\textheight]{IMAGE.jpg} it rescales the image by setting its height as the 50% of the text width and automatically adjust the width to maintain the proportion. You can choose any percentage, also greater than 1.

edited Apr 24 '20 at 20:03

answered Apr 24 '20 at 18:43

Eddymage

How do I shrink the picture? I used the commands just after documentclass \usepackage{graphicx} and in the body of the text I used the command \includegraphicx{(b).jpg} but I believe I get a picture which is too big for the screen so I don't see the picture. What do you suggest me to do here? thanks! – Alan Apr 24 '20 at 18:51
You can use some options for the \includegraphics command, such as \includegraphics[scale=0.5]{(b).jpg}, which halves the image; you can choose the percentage of the scaling as you desire. Nonetheless, the option that I prefer is to use \includegraphics[width=0.5\textwidth]{(b).jpg} which rescales the image's dimension as a percentage of the width of the text (in this case, it sets as 50% of the text width). You may play a little bit with this commands and see what better suits you. – Eddymage Apr 24 '20 at 19:43
@Eddymage --- it would be much better if you put the info in this comment in the answer ;-) – Rmano Apr 24 '20 at 19:49
@Rmano you're right, done it! – Eddymage Apr 24 '20 at 20:04

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