Setting `caption` parameters for `figures` and `tables` locally

Question

The answer to a question asked Jan 16 '13 at 4:54 by @manish continued into a discussion on how to set caption parameters locally. The suggestion that this would be done using \captionsetup[figure]{..} or \captionsetup[table]{..} inside the figure or table environment does not work for me either. How can this be done?

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[demo]{graphicx} %% Remove [demo] in your file
%\usepackage{caption}
%\captionsetup[table]{font=small,skip=0pt}     %% Adjust here
%or equivalently 
\usepackage[font=small,skip=0pt]{caption}

\begin{document}

Some text...

\begin{figure}[htb]
\captionsetup[figure]{font=large,skip=10pt}
\begin{center}
\includegraphics[height=1in,width=1in,angle=-90]{foo}
\caption{This is a figure.}
\end{center}
\end{figure}

More text...

\begin{figure}[htb]
\captionsetup[figure]{font=small,skip=0pt}
\begin{center}
\includegraphics[height=1in,width=1in,angle=-90]{foo}
\caption{This is another figure.}
\end{center}
\end{figure}

Still more text...
\begin{table}[htb]
\centering
\caption{This is a table.}
\begin{tabular}{|c|c|}
\hline
    % after \\: \hline or \cline{col1-col2} \cline{col3-col4} ...
    1 & 2 \\
    4 & 7 \\
    \hline
\end{tabular}
\end{table}

More text...

\end{document}

Answer 1

Following the documentation of package caption, chapter 1, you have to use

\captionsetup{font=large,skip=10pt}

instead

\captionsetup[figure]{font=large,skip=10pt}
%            ^^^^^^^^

So with the following MWE

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[demo]{graphicx} %% Remove [demo] in your file
%\usepackage{caption}
%\captionsetup[table]{font=small,skip=0pt}     %% Adjust here
%or equivalently 
\usepackage[font=small,skip=0pt]{caption}

\begin{document}

Some text...

\begin{figure}[htb]
  \centering
  \includegraphics[height=1in,width=1in,angle=-90]{foo}
  \captionsetup{font=large,skip=10pt} % <===============================
  \caption{This is a figure.}
\end{figure}

More text...

\begin{figure}[htb]
\captionsetup{font=small,skip=-10pt} % <================================
\begin{center}
\includegraphics[height=1in,width=1in,angle=-90]{foo}
\caption{This is another figure.}
\end{center}
\end{figure}

Still more text...
\begin{table}[htb]
\centering
\caption{This is a table.}
\begin{tabular}{|c|c|}
\hline
    % after \\: \hline or \cline{col1-col2} \cline{col3-col4} ...
    1 & 2 \\
    4 & 7 \\
    \hline
\end{tabular}
\end{table}

More text...

\end{document}

you get the result (I only used -10pt to make the second changing better visable):