I would like to have my captions as shown in the image below. I want them to appear on the TOP left of the image. I tried SideCap, but it puts them at the bottom of image.
[Tex/LaTex] placing caption on the top right or top left –
captionspositioning
Related Solutions
As far as I know there's no easy way to change the value for sidecaptionvpos
for individual objects (but perhaps someone will prove me wrong). I would suggest you to use the more powerful and flexible floatrow package instead; a little example in which the default position was selected to be top and then \thisfloatsetup{capbesideposition={bottom}} was used to change the vertical position of the caption for a selected object:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[demo]{graphicx}
\usepackage[capbesideposition={top,outside},facing=yes,capbesidesep=quad]{floatrow}
\begin{document}
\begin{figure}[!ht]
\fcapside
{\caption{some text here to represent the caption}}
{\includegraphics{image1}}
\end{figure}
\begin{figure}[!ht]
\thisfloatsetup{capbesideposition={bottom}}
\fcapside
{\caption{some text here to represent the caption}}
{\includegraphics{image2}}
\end{figure}
\end{document}
The demo option for graphicx simply replaces actual figures with black rectangles; do not use that option in your actual document. I only used [!ht] for the example; I am not suggesting this to be used.
As mentioned in the comments, I don't think there's a way to change the caption position automatically. However, LaTeX provides two commands that can place the rule automatically for you: \topfigrule and \botfigrule. Here's an example, but as with Steven's solution, this still requires you to specify what placement the figure will be to get the caption correct. (Also, remember to makes sure your labels follow the caption command or are inside it.)
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[demo]{graphicx}
\usepackage{caption}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\newcommand{\topfigrule}{\vspace{5pt} \hrule \vspace{-5pt}}
\newcommand{\botfigrule}{\vspace{-5pt} \hrule \vspace{5pt}}
\begin{document}
\lipsum[1]
\begin{figure}[t]
\centering
\includegraphics[width=\columnwidth]{blackbox}
\caption{This figure is on the top. The caption should be on the bottom,
and the horizontal line under it.}
\label{fig:1}
\end{figure}
\lipsum[1]
\begin{figure}[b]
\centering
\caption{This figure is on the bottom, so it caption is above it. Now
the horizontal line should be also above this text...}
\label{fig:2}
\includegraphics[width=\columnwidth]{blackbox}
\end{figure}
\lipsum[1]
\end{document}
Best Answer
As Harish Kumar mentioned in his comment. you can use
\sidecaptionvposto control the vertical placement of the caption and theinnercaptionpackage option to place the captions right on left pages and left on right pages (as your example seems to show). In the following example I also used\subcaptionboxfrom the subcaption package to place the subfigures; thedemooption forgraphicxsimply replaces the images with black rectangles (do notuse that option in your actual code):