Handout Image Gallery

Context I'm a very visual storyteller and most of my players like being on the same page when it comes to imagining the story together. So when they encounter an NPC, enter a room or encounter an area I like showing several pictures illustrating the creatures and interactions occurring there. Problem It seems like the main way Roll20 supports this is to share such details in handout, which is fine, except that it then requires uploading each image individually and making a separate handout for each one. Alternatively I've noticed I can copy and paste some images from the internet into the text area of a handout but this is relatively tedious when I might have 2-6 pictures for each area in a typical adventure and a dozen or more encounters. Solution? Could it be possible to implement a simple carousel-style image gallery for Handouts? Alternatively, supporting HTML would allow players to paste in galleries from other sources, like Imgur, via iframes. I'd be happy to hear about work-arounds. Obviously I can share a link to a gallery in the chat but I try hard to keep player attention in the Roll20 window since it's so easy to get distracted and miss things. Allowing me to have the control to share the gallery and narrate appropriately as I click through pictures will strengthen the storytelling experience. All the scripts and plugins I can find seem to relate to tactical/videogameish type interface elements.

My preferred workaround for this is the "Shift-Z" technique. GM select a graphic on the tabletop itself (such as a map, token, or photograph), press SHIFT-Z, it will display that picture in full-screen, lightbox (dark background) to everyone who is logged in. They can close the image with a mouse-click, or just leave it open.  If the GM does Shift-Z on another image it will replace (pop-over) the previous image. If you use a Map also for your game, just expand the Roll20 Page Size to create Margins around the map. You can hide those margins under regular Fog Of War if you don't want players to pre-see what's there.  When it's time to display the Gallery to players, you the GM just start selecting those Photos stashed in your Margins, and Shift-Z each pic you want to show. Otherwise, yeah, I like your idea of Handouts being able to contain multiple images in a carousel, that'd be nice too. 

This is not exactly what was asked, but I would love to be able to pull a picture onto the map from a handout. I have a landing page and often want to leave a picture on the virtual tabletop, but I have to go find it in the image library to do it, and that is a pain. It should be possible to just pull it from a handout I already have created. 

Yes. I think a batch upload and a share with player directly from images would be useful. Sometimes I don't want the overhead of making a handout and just want to show the players an image once.

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