If you asked anyone in the office what their least favorite Inflight module was, the answer would be a resounding “Images”.

It’s kind of weird, really – we have this totally awesome photo management app, and the piece of our CMS that’s most neglected/disliked is the one that deals with images.

At any rate, no one really liked images – but we all realized that they had to stay there. Last week, Micah put me on a project that involved using it – and at that point, the decision was made. Images had to change.

This is what the main page for the images module used to look like:

…And this is what it looks like now:

As you can see, your images are just displayed directly on the page now – and if you need to filter them, you can click on a category in the sidebar. That makes it a lot easier to see your images, in addition to figuring out which are where – previously, you had to click into a category to see all the images inside it. As a developer who hates clicking, this was less than optimal.

Another long-awaited addition to images is the ability to upload more than 5 files at once: the boring ‘upload 5 images and then more’ screen has been replaced with a sexy multi-image uploader:

As you can see, images to be uploaded will get queued up – and you can even remove them if you make a mistake. Then, when you’re ready to upload, you just hit ‘Start Upload’ – and go do something else. You can also clear the queue if you’ve screwed up really badly and don’t want to upload any images.

We’ve still got a few more tweaks planned for images(I can’t say anything, but you may one day be able to ____ your thumbnails), but it’s a little easier to use now – at least, I don’t hear Micah complaining as much.