How do I insert an image on a LaTex doc?

[Saladsamurai]

I googled this, but all articles assume previous knowledge of Latex.

I am brand new to Latex. I am using TeXshop on my Mac.

I have a template open and I want to insert a jpg in the document.

I clicked on the "Graphics Template" and then pasted the the name of my picture in there like the template implies. But that doesn't do it (nor do I think it should). Clearly I am missing something here.

Here is a screenshot of my attempt.

Thanks,
Casey

 

[robphy]

What is your error message?

did you use \usepackage{graphics} or \usepackage{graphicx}?
http://www.artofproblemsolving.com/LaTeX/AoPS_L_PictMan.php

 

[Saladsamurai]

What is your error message?

did you use \usepackage{graphics} or \usepackage{graphicx}?
http://www.artofproblemsolving.com/LaTeX/AoPS_L_PictMan.php

I tried \usepackage{graphicx} but got nothing... noob question: I put "\usepackage{graphicx} " with all the other "usepackages" at the top of the page right?

 

[Saladsamurai]

Where does the mage need to be saved? Does that matter?

 

[Saladsamurai]

Error message:

 

[Saladsamurai]

What is your error message?

did you use \usepackage{graphics} or \usepackage{graphicx}?
http://www.artofproblemsolving.com/LaTeX/AoPS_L_PictMan.php

So I went to this site and copy/pasted this into a doc:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[pdftex]{graphicx}
\begin{document}

This is my first image.

\includegraphics{myimage.png}

That's a cool picture up above.
\end{document}

I saved an image as "myimage.png"

I compiled and got nothing.

So I deleted everything except document class and such.

Then I just drag-and-dropped the image from my desktop to the doc and it worked!

It appears to have put the entire file path which I am not sure why the website does not?

 

[Saladsamurai]

This is kind of annoying. The template implies that you only need to put in the argument {moon.jpg} but when I do that, it does not work.

When I drag and drop an image it automatically prints the line with the entire address. But the address looks like this

../../Users/me/moon.jpg

It literally prints the dots "..."

I use a Mac and cannot figure out how to find the address for certain files?

On PC its just right-click-->properties and you're there.

But with Mac?

 

[nrqed]

Not sure if that will be helpful (because I am on a Windows machine and use TeXnicCenter and MikTeX) but the following works for me:

after the declaration of my document class I have

\usepackage{graphicx}

then where I want my figure I use

\begin{figure}[h]
\begin{center}
\scalebox{0.80}{\includegraphics{propagator.eps}}
\caption{\label{mprop} Majorana propagator.}
\end{center}
\end{figure}

where the file propagator.eps is in the same directory as my TeX file. The factor of 0.80 simply scales down the figure to 80%.

 

[cristo]

It appears to have put the entire file path which I am not sure why the website does not?

Is your image in the same folder as your tex file? If so, then you should not need the entire path.