How can I modify vertical space between figure and caption?

Question

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[draft]{graphicx}
\begin{document}
\begin{figure}
\centering
\setlength\fboxsep{124pt}
\setlength\fboxrule{1pt}
\fbox{\includegraphics{dummy}}
\caption{Dummy caption}
\end{figure}
\end{document}

How can I increase vertical space between figure and caption?

Answer 1

Modify the lengths \abovecaptionskip and \belowcaptionskip (in the document preamble) to suit your needs:

\setlength{\abovecaptionskip}{15pt plus 3pt minus 2pt} % Chosen fairly arbitrarily

The default values are 10pt and 0pt. (The plus and minus allows the space to stretch and shrink if needed. The numbers specify how much.)

Answer 2

\vspace*{-10mm} placed before \caption command does the trick. Just pick the number that works for you the best.

Answer 3

You can use the caption package for this:

\usepackage[skip=2pt]{caption} % example skip set to 2pt

This will effect all figures.

The documentation says:

The vertical space between the caption and the figure or table contents is controlled by the option skip=amount. The standard LATEX document classes article, report and book preset it to skip=10pt, but other document classes may use a different amount.

Answer 4

Just do the \vspace*{-3mm} option

\begin{figure}[htbp]
    \centering
    \includegraphics[width=0.74\textwidth]{figs/Subplt.pdf}
    \vspace*{-3mm}
    \caption{Inverter-level and macro-level MAPE bootstrap distributions.}
    \label{Fig:Subplt_fig}
\end{figure}