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One of a caption's primary purposes is to identify the subject of the picture. Make sure your caption does that, without leaving readers to wonder what the subject of the picture might be. Be as unambiguous as practical in identifying the subject. What the picture is is important, too. If the image to be captioned is a painting, an editor can ...
An image's utility or quality may be improved by cropping (to focus on the relevant portion), cleaning up scanning artifacts, correcting color balance, removing red-eye effect, or other adjustments. The caption of an image should mention such edits (e.g. introduction of false color or pseudocolor ) if a reader needs to know about them to ...
The actual alt text for the displayed image will be one of the following, in order of preference: The explicitly requested Alt, if any; The explicitly requested Caption, if the image type has no visible caption; The empty string, if there is an explicitly requested Caption and the image type has a visible caption.
Note: To achieve a plain image with a caption, one can use {{Plain image with caption}}. The caption is automatically added as the image's title and alt text, and any wiki markup used on it will be correctly displayed on the caption, but will be automatically stripped down from the alt and title text. See an example here.
It's hard to write a full sentence caption that doesn't fulfill at least one other goal of a good caption, and with that in mind, a full sentence is a good place to start. Keep in mind that captions are wiki text just like the articles - they're always subject to improvement! -- ke4roh 19:24, Aug 24, 2004 (UTC)
Caption examples. Photo captions, also known as cutlines, are a few lines of text used to explain and elaborate on published photographs. [1] In some cases captions and cutlines are distinguished, where the caption is a short (usually one-line) title/explanation for the photo, while the cutline is a longer, prose block under the caption, generally describing the photograph, giving context, or ...
A template for adding a caption to a frameless image. Template parameters [Edit template data] Parameter Description Type Status Image image 1 The image to use. The ''File:'' prefix is optional. Default — String required Image caption and alt text caption 2 The caption to display under or above the image. Also sets the alt text. Default — String required Image width scaling factor upright ...
packed-hover Like packed-overlay, but caption is only visible on hover (degrades gracefully on screen readers, and falls back to packed-overlay if a touch screen is used) slideshow Slideshow; caption= Adds an overall caption (or title) above the gallery; for multiple words, enclose in double quotes