Hospice nurses have made headlines by revealing the types of words patients say most before dying.
Palliative care nurse Julie McFadden revealed the three things patients regret the most ahead of their death.
most before dying.
the most ahead of their death.
immediately before
directly before
right before
just before
What is the meaning of "just before"?
Happening directly before a specified event or time.
What is another word for just before something?
Some common synonyms of preceding are antecedent, anterior, foregoing, former, previous, and prior. While all these words mean "being before," preceding usually implies being immediately before in time or in place.
This involves the separate meanings of immediately, right and just in context. So it will be context dependent. Your example is referring to position, so I would just use "The paragraph above the image."
I'm voting to close this question as off-topic because none of the proposed options are appropriate for the suggested sentence.