Have you ever heard of the old adage, “A picture is worth a thousand words”? This phrase dates a couple of decades back when the use of pictures was starting to be the norm in marketing materials.
Today, pictures are a must in almost all written work, be it on a newspaper, magazine, or digital articles.
This is due to the fact that humans are mostly visual beings. And, you’ll surely agree with us that an excellent photo should come with a good, complementing caption.
Captions convey important information to explain what the picture is about. It answers the who, where, what, how, and why of the readers to draw interest to the full-text story.

Now, there are about three ways to add a caption to an image in Google Docs.