All I want for Christmas is a little help

I currently have the
Category Image(s) plugin installed. It displays images in place of the category names with the images acting as links to the category archives.
What I would like is for only one category image-link to be displayed for each post and the subsequent category links to be category text-links, as is the default. The plugin doesn’t allow this currently. It is either all category image-links or all category text-links. Is there some way to have both?
Perhaps there is a way to exclude categories from displaying with the default category tag? That way I can use the plugin tag to display the category image-link and the default category tag (set to omit the category image-link) to display the category text-links.