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Atmosphere images: pop-up or new page?

I'm looking for advice from more experienced Roll20 GMs. I hope that this is the correct forum in which to post this question; if not, please point me to the correct one and I'll repost. I'm currently DMing D&D 5e's Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaide, and I use a lot of atmospheric images: pictures of giant glaciers, auroras over mountains, creepy ice tunnels, etc. to help sell my players on the idea that they're in a frozen wilderness, not their comfy homes. As it stands, I've been putting each atmosphere image on its own page, and then I'll switch to the appropriate page when I want to create a particular atmosphere, with particular music. However, I'm about to do Rime's Caves of Hunger, which is a pretty long dungeon crawl, and I don't want to jump away from the map a bunch. I fear that will just confuse the party. So I'm throwing around the idea of leaving images on the map, then using Shift+Z to show them to the players. I don't get distinct music unless I manually change it, but that is what it is. My question is: can GMs who have tried these different approaches before let me know which they find to be more "immersive" and/or better? What do you think of each approach?
I do not like "one page per image" since I strongly dislike to many pages. So I go with "Shift+Z" mostly and set music/sound effects manually. But I think players can dismiss the image I showed them with "Shift+Z" so this may not be ideal either.
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keithcurtis
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I would suggest adding a border to the map (for a pre-built module map, just add a few squares and it will add the space to bottom and right. Conceal these with fog of war and keep your images there and sized to one square, and use the Shift-Z as necessary. There are some better solutions with the API (Pro Perk) but that's my method for Free or Plus.
Have you tried [img](url of image) in chat to put the image in the chat box?
<a href="https://youtu.be/RaRnTUqqLc8" rel="nofollow">https://youtu.be/RaRnTUqqLc8</a>
Thank you all for these great ideas!