title caption on the cover image in blog listing ??

Hello,

as seen in many templates, i would like to modernize my easyblog template (Nickel on 2 columns) for categories by adding text caption on the cover image (title at least + maybe the category name)

see examples attached

is there someone that can give me some code to change in the templates ?

and maybe that could be something that can be done by default for one official template...

thanks in advance
Loïc