Two pictures side by side in the two columns format

Question

I would like to put two pictures side by side in the two-column template as follows.

This is the current code:

\documentclass[journal]{IEEEtran}
\begin{document}
\begin{figure}
    \centering
        \includegraphics[width=1.5 in]{square.jpg}
    \caption{the square is blue}
    \label{fig:square}
\end{figure}
\begin{figure}
    \centering
        \includegraphics[width=1.5 in]{circle.jpg}
    \caption{the circle is orange}
    \label{fig:circle}
\end{figure}
\end{document}

Then, the result is as follows.

Thank you.

Hello, this problem has already been answered, kindly check https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/495253/posting-figures-side-by-side — Elijah Ojiambo, Mar 21 '23 at 05:09
The important point is that you can put two captions into one figure. — John Kormylo, Mar 21 '23 at 13:52

score 2 · Accepted Answer · edited Mar 21 '23 at 07:26

Another way is use of tabularx package:

\documentclass[journal]{IEEEtran}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{caption}
\usepackage{tabularx}
\newcolumntype{C}{>{\centering\arraybackslash}X}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\begin{document}
\lipsum[1]
\begin{figure}[ht]

\begin{tabularx}{\linewidth}{@{} CC @{}}
    \includegraphics[width=1.5 in]{example-image-duck}%{square.jpg}
    \caption{the square is blue}
    \label{fig:square}
    &   \includegraphics[width=1.5 in]{example-image-duck}%{circle.jpg}
        \caption{the circle is orange}
        \label{fig:circle}
\end{tabularx}
    \end{figure}
\lipsum[2-7]
\end{document}

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 21 '23 at 05:20

Hope this will meet the requirement:

\documentclass[journal]{IEEEtran}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{float}
\usepackage{adjustbox}
\begin{document}
\hbox{\adjustbox{valign=t}{%
\begin{minipage}{0.5\textwidth}
\begin{figure}[H]
\includegraphics[width=0.25in]{example-image} \caption{the
square is blue} \label{fig:square} 
\end{figure}
\end{minipage}}\hspace{12pt}
\adjustbox{valign=t}{%
\begin{minipage}{0.5\textwidth}
\begin{figure}[H]
\includegraphics[width=0.25in]{example-image} \caption{the
circle is orange} \label{fig:circle}

\end{figure}
\end{minipage}}
}
\end{document}

Two pictures side by side in the two columns format

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