Center figures by default

Question

Currently all of my figures look like this:

\begin{figure}
  \centering
  \includegraphics[width=0.5\columnwidth]{my-figure}
\end{figure}

I would like to avoid specifying \centering in each figure, and instead would like to specify an alternative orientation if needed (rarely). Is this possible?

Answer 1

Try this one:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[draft]{graphicx}
\makeatletter
\g@addto@macro@floatboxreset\centering
\makeatother
\begin{document}
\begin{figure}
  \includegraphics[width=0.5\columnwidth]{example-image-a.png}
\end{figure}
\end{document}