Is there a way to display Category images when selecting Shop ALL instead of all item images?

[MSBDivas]

With more than a few thousand items anticipated, the Shop All / Shop Now functionality showing all of them isn't real helpful. Instead I would prefer displaying the top level Category images that then link to a page of their sub-category images.

Where are Category images used?  I thought they would be displayed somewhere to help customers pick the correct category.

[AdamB]

Great question, @MSBDivas. 

Instead of using the Shop All page, try adding a regular page to the site and then adding a Featured Categories section to that. You can connect that section with each of the top level categories in your store, and those will then link to the respective category pages which show the items in that category.