Bill Erickson

When you upload an image, WordPress will automatically scale/crop it to many different sizes. If you’re not happy with the auto-crops, use this plugin to upload an alternative image.
If you have images showing up in your theme already, there’s nothing you need to do after activating this plugin. All WordPress functions that provide the thumbnail should now automatically work with your override image.
This plugin will add a metabox to every post type and allow you to modify every image size (built-in and custom ones added using add_image_size). You can use two filters to change these (image_override_post_types and image_override_sizes). For examples, see the documentation.
<a href="https://github.com/billerickson/Image-Override/wiki" rel="nofollow ugc">Documentation</a>
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Image Override

Allows you to override WordPress' auto generated thumbnails.

Jens Hunt

Image Caption on Featured adds the image caption on the featured image. The caption appears as a headline on the image.
See how to use it at: http://www.jenshunt.se/image-caption-on-featured-wordpress-plugin/

Image Caption on Featured

Image Caption on Featured adds the caption on the featured image.

Image Override vs Image Caption on Featured