This code gets the first image of the post (not the featured image) and places it above the Post Title and in second step it removes the first-image-of-content (the_content) from post content to remove same image showing twice (above title and in content). Code goes in functions.php

image-above-title-2.php

<?php

//to catch & print first image occuring in post content (the_content) via famous 'catch-that-image'

/* we could have also used genesis_get_image() to catch the first image instead of 'catch_that_image' script;
  but genesis_get_image() was actually catching "first uploaded image" instead of "first image occuring in the_content".
  
  Link to snippet using genesis_get_image -- https://gist.github.com/vajrasar/6559551
*/

add_action('genesis_entry_header','image_above_t',7); //to place image above title
 
function image_above_t() {
  global $post;
  $first_img = '';
  ob_start();
  ob_end_clean();
  $output = preg_match_all('/<img.+src=[\'"]([^\'"]+)[\'"].*>/i', $post->post_content, $matches);
  $first_img = $matches[1][0]; //path of first image occuring in the_content
  
  if(!empty($first_img)) { //outputting the first image above title
    ?>
    <div id="i_a_t">
    <a href="<?php echo get_permalink( $post->ID ); ?>"><img src="<?php echo $first_img ?>" /></a>
    </div>
    <?php
  }
  else { //to simply provide a line gap if no image is present
    ?>
    <br />
    <?php
  }
}
 
//to remove first image from the_content so that image dosen't occur twice in - above title and content as well
 
add_filter('the_content', 'remove_image_content',11); 
 
function remove_image_content($content) {
  if(!is_page()) { //fix to stop any unwanted change happening in page context
    return preg_replace("/\< *[img][^\>]*[.]*\>/i","",$content,1);
  }
}