Auctiva Mike has stated elsewhere that there are no plans to make it so that the gallery photo defaults to picture #1 on the listing page.
I'd like to suggest that this be reconsidered. I would think a lot of people probably use the first picture as their gallery and/or header.
I know it would save me two clicks per listing.
Besides that, it obviously makes a lot more sense -- from a user perspective -- than defaulting to the previous pictures used (which is what happens when you Create Similar).
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