How to remove space after image caption? [duplicate]

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I am writing one article in which i need to write one image and its caption. I found space after caption seems to be more than normal.

  \begin{figure}[!ht]
  \centering
  \includegraphics[width=0.7\linewidth]{image1.jpg}                   
  \caption{\textcolor{gray}{\footnotesize \textit{ImageCaption}}}
  \end{figure}
   This is first text after caption.

How can i reduce the space between caption and text?

Answer 1

A quick way would be to use \vspace{} with negative length as input. However, this is not the right approach and is not recommended for use.

Without using vspace the output would look like:

Here is a MWE with vspace and negative length as input followed by the output.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[demo]{graphicx}
\usepackage{caption}
\usepackage{xcolor} 

\begin{document}

 \begin{figure}[!ht]
  \centering
  \includegraphics[width=0.5\textwidth]{image}                   
  \vspace{-1em}
  \caption{\textcolor{gray}{\footnotesize \textit{ImageCaption}}}
  \vspace{-1.5em}
  \end{figure}
   This is first text after caption.

\end{document}

Note how the use of vspace after the figure and after the caption shrinks the space.