Making a small modification to a LaTeX environment

Question

I\'ve been using \\begin{figure} ... \\end{figure} throughout my LaTeX document, but the default styling is ugly; namely, the figures are all left-aligned. Is

Answer 1

How about:

\newenvironment{centeredfigure}{\begin{figure}\begin{center}}{\end{center}\end{figure}}

Note: untested.