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HTML

<figure>
        <img src="https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/bifqk4sdl9mggfbcv9vf.jpg" class="attachment-shop_catalog wp-post-image" alt="1" height="300" width="400">
  

     <div id="effect">
            <h3>Title</h3>
                <span>this is an image</span>
                <a href="http://www.w3schools.com/default.asp">read more</a>
        </div>

    </figure>

CSS

figure{
        
        margin: 0px;
        padding: 0px;
        position: relative;
        font-family: Myriad Pro;
    
}

figure img{
    
    display: block;
    position: relative;
    z-index: 10;
    border: 1px solid grey;
       
    
}

#effect h3 {
    color: #fff;
    font-size: 22px;
    line-height: 1.2;
    font-weight: 700;
    margin-bottom: 10px;
}
#effect span {
    color: #fff;
    display: block;
    line-height: 1.2;
    margin-top: 100px;
    font-size: 30px;
    font-family: Myriad Pro;
        
}
#effect {
    top: 0;
    left: 0;
    width: 400px;
    height: 300px;
    background-color: lightblue;
    text-align: center;
    position: absolute;
    z-index: 11;
    opacity: 0;
}

figure #effect:hover{
    
    opacity: 0.9;
}