Much more so than that. What's wrong with this code? <span style="position:absolute; top:100px; left:200px; z-index:1;">[[File:Banana.gif|700px]]</span>
<span style="position:absolute; top:100px; left:200px; z-index:1;">[[File:Banana.gif|700px]]</span>
Could it be that you are blowing the image up to ten times its actual size?
Precisely.
Well, that's kind of the point :-)