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How do I show pictures without being obscured by Fog of War?

So, for my game, I have one huge map on the screen, and almost all of it is under Fog of War.  What I want to be able to do is pull out images, pictures of monsters or other things, and display them for the players.  But whenever I try dragging an image into the virtual tabletop, it becomes a "token" and is hidden by the Fog of War.  I want to be able to show this to the players without removing the Fog of War from the map. Is there a way to make tokens ignore the Fog of War?  Or is there a different way to display images to the players besides making one a token? Thanks!
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Ziechael
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If you just want to show them the token once for their reference you can  shift+z with the token selected to force a larger view of it onto their screens. This should ignore fog of war (untested but makes sense) and allow them to see a nice large clear image of what it is you are showing them. They simply have to click to make it go away again. Alternatively you can set up handouts with the images in and use the ' show to players ' button to again force it onto their screens. The advantage there is that they will have continued access to the handout should they want to look at it again some time in the future, the disadvantage is that you have to make a lot of handouts if this is something you do often! The  wiki is full of lots of useful bits of information, well worth a look :)
Thanks a lot Ziechael! That shift+z thing is awesome, great tip.
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Ziechael
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It's fun to force things onto players screens suddenly, especially when it is something hidden to their vision too ;) BOO!! Have fun with it.