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?
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.
caption, perhaps setting\aftercaptionskipwould work. Otherwise,\intextsepor\textfloatsep(see thelayoutspackage documentation; section 6.1 Float and text page layout, p 25).captionpackage the correct command is\captionsetup{belowskip=0pt}. But since this is the default value something is going wrong at your document. But to find out we need an MWE from you.\raggedbottomhelp? (put it in your preamble)\textcolor,\footnotesizeand\textitmanually into the caption text shows a lack of concept. The packagecaptionthat you claimed you use provides a lot of\captioncustomization on the document level, so that it applies consistently to all captions.