Aligning images

By default, the baseline of an image is at its bottom. So, adjacent images would be aligned at the bottom. However, alignment at the top, or vertically centered alignment, may be desirable instead.

How to do it...

We will use the \height macro for shifting to get vertical centering. Let's take a look at the following steps:

1. Load the graphicx package. For testing, or if you don't have images, add the demo option to use black rectangles in place of images:

   \usepackage[demo]{graphicx}

2. In your document, use the \raisebox command, together with half of the \height command:

   \raisebox{-0.5\height}{\includegraphics[height=4cm,
     width=8cm]{filename1}}
   \hfill
   \raisebox{-0.5\height}{\includegraphics[height=2cm,
     width=4cm]{filename2}}

3. Your images, in the demo case, black-filled rectangles, will be vertically centered aligned:

   

How it works...

The \height command returns the current height above the base line. The \totalheight command would include the height below the base line, which doesn...