How do I specify the size of an image in LaTeX?
To include a figure within an Overleaf document you first have to upload it to your project. Assuming you have loaded the graphicx
package into your document preamble:
\usepackage{graphicx}
you specify the (typeset) size of the image using the scale=...
option of the \includegraphics
command:
\includegraphics[width=0.5\textwidth]{my-uploaded-figure.png}
Example
- Note: The following example uses a graphics file (
example-image.pdf
) provided by themwe
package. Those graphics files are distributed by TeX Live and thus stored on Overleaf's servers, making them available as image placeholders, such as the example below.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\begin{document}
Natural size of the image:
\vspace{3pt}
\includegraphics{example-image.pdf}
\vspace{12pt}
Image scaled to 50\%:
\vspace{3pt}
\includegraphics[scale=0.5]{example-image.pdf}
\vspace{12pt}
Image scaled to 25\%:
\vspace{3pt}
\includegraphics[scale=0.25]{example-image.pdf}
\end{document}
This example produces the following output:
There's also an example of this in our default paper template—try it out by creating a new paper to see how the image frog.jpg
is scaled to a fraction of the text width by writing this:
\includegraphics[width=0.3\textwidth]{frog.jpg}