How to right align a picture?

Question

Question is very simple. I want to \includegraphics and align it to the right, while having some text or items on the left. Is there a simple command for this??

Edit Here is what I did from previous answers/comments:

\documentclass{beamer}
\begin{document}
\frame {
      \frametitle{name}
     \noindent
 \parbox{5cm}{some text}
     \hfill
       \rule{2cm}{3cm}
}
\end{document}

This creates a space for the picture on the right and a line of text on the left side, but at the bottom of the picture. I want to align it to start from the top of the picture. Which command should I use?

Answer 1

\noindent
\parbox{2cm}{some words}%
\hfill
\includegraphics{...}

will put some words flush left and an image flush right on the same line.

To adjust the alignment you can use [t] on the \parbox so it aligns on its top row and use \raisebox to adjust the image. Moving it by its natural height moves the alignment to its top edge but that may be too far: on the second frame the alignment point is one baseline skip down from the top

\documentclass{beamer}
\begin{document}
\frame {
      \frametitle{name}
     \noindent
 \parbox[t]{5cm}{some text}
     \hfill
       \raisebox{-\height}{\rule{2cm}{3cm}}

}

\frame {
      \frametitle{name}
     \noindent
 \parbox[t]{5cm}{some text}
     \hfill
       \raisebox{\dimexpr-\height+\baselineskip}{\rule{2cm}{3cm}}
}
\end{document}

Answer 2

The OP specified his needs, that the left hand side should be a paragraph and the right hand side a justified right image on a beamer slide. Hence one way to accomplish that would be columns as demonstrated here

\documentclass[demo]{beamer}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} % input encoding of the file
\begin{document}
\begin{frame}{Title}{Subtitle}
    \begin{columns}
        \begin{column}{.5\textwidth}
            Your longish paragraph text here, where you describe stuff and so on
        \end{column}
        \begin{column}{.5\textwidth}\raggedleft
            \includegraphics[width=1cm,height=2cm]{test}
        \end{column}
    \end{columns}
\end{frame}
\end{document}

Answer 3

Judging from your comments I looked at floatrow which enables you to globally (for all pictures) define such a layout. The MWE would be

\documentclass{scrartcl}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} % input encoding of the file
\usepackage[demo]{graphicx} % Demo includes test images
\usepackage[justification=raggedleft,%
    capposition=beside,%
    capbesideposition=left%
  ]{floatrow}
\begin{document}
\begin{figure}
\includegraphics{test} %your image here
\caption{I am the figure description}
\end{figure}
\end{document}

Where graphicx is loaded with [demo] such that this compiles without an image present. The floatrow is set up, such that the images are justified to the right (first option), the caption is put besides the image to the left.

The result looks like

To further align the text top left to the figure change the capbesideposition-option to capbesideposition={left,top}which yields