To be clear, we will never delete photos you did not personally take. And when you upload photos, if you read the terms (does anyone?) we say up front we will not delete images you upload unless they’re duplicates or have some other problem, like a lack of model releases.

So tiring.

Just FYI, the slideshow images are pulled from “exterior” and “action” shots, and even then, they’re only chosen if they’re near the site’s maximum allowed size to keep the blurriness from being even worse than it is. I looked at 10,000 XK exterior images this evening to reclassify errant images and remove duplicates as I saw them. I hope to do the same for the other sites over time but the 40,000+ exterior images in the E-Type site is a daunting challenge!

The good news is it should handle large(ish) images fairly gracefully, offers the ability to select any number of images from a single dialog box, shows progress bars for each image as they upload, and the “fill in a caption” screen is cleaner, easier to use, and allows accidentally uploaded images to be deleted before saving.

The flip-side is that it uses a very small flash-based plugin to allow some of these things to happen (mainly the progress bars, multi-file selection, and better handling of large file uploads). This will be meaningless to most of you, but it does mean the nifty new tool won’t work from any device Steve Jobs has determined shouldn’t have flash (ie, your iPhone).

Anyway, I think you’ll agree it’s an improvement…once it goes live, if you encounter any problems drop me a line.