Including an image

For including images, the standard package is called graphicx. The x in the name means it's extending the original, but outdated, graphics package.

We will create a short document, and between two paragraphs, we would like to insert a picture. We can do so with the help of the following steps:

1. Begin a new document and load babel and blindtext to print some filler text, as follows:

   \documentclass[a5paper]{article}
   \usepackage[english]{babel}
   \usepackage{blindtext}
   \usepackage{graphicx}
   \pagestyle{empty}
   \begin{document}
   \section{Including a picture}
   \blindtext

2. Open a figure environment and declare \centering, as follows:

   \begin{figure}
     \centering

3. Use the \includegraphics command with the filename as the argument. We will use example-image as the filename since that's a sample image included with TeX Live. The code is illustrated in the following snippet:

     \includegraphics[width=4cm]{example-image}

4. Set a caption...