Update: Tried a full re-install of the Framework, theme, and plugin. Now, if I do not include Content or Excerpts (only titles), I can at least get everything flush on the left and right sides, and the image flush on the bottom. However I cannot get the text box to be flush to the top or bottom. There’s always about a 30px gap.
Is there an easy means of controlling the appearance of the text box and text — can it all be done via the stylesheet editor? Not sure if the gap is intended or a bug. Thinking maybe that a specified image size is required for use with the slider, and that a gap was intended because it was never considered that the text and image together would “auto-fill” the full width and height of the slider, with everything flush / no overlaps.
As a theme developer if StudioPress ever takes your feedback on their plugins I would really like to see more design control for alignments, image size / scaling options, and text options inside the “Slider Settings area” for version 1.0 — if that’s even planned. 🙂