Graphics, Figures & Tables ⇒ Decrease Distance between Caption and Figure

[prob_1]

How do I decrease the distance between a figure and the corresponding caption?

[sommerfee]

This depends on the document class used. And it would be of interest if you use a package which replaces \caption, e.g. the caption or ccaption package. Furthermore it's worth looking at where the too-much-space is coming from, from an environment (like "center"), from a border around the image file etc.

[kaiserkarl13]

Try setting \abovecaptionskip (default depends on document class, but I think it's 10 pt in most of them). You can also customize figures and tables with the skip= option of the caption package.