Eric. Those StudioPress forums no longer exist… according to StudioPress itself. They took them down. Basically, StudioPress is providing zero support for its own plugin, which is really disappointing.
Short version: cannot figure out of it’s possible to get the text options to truly sit flush with top or bottom (I don’t think so from what I’ve seen), or get images that do not match the size of the slider to sit flush with all borders and combine with flush text box to cover 100% of the boundaries with no overlaps (also don’t think so). Guessing my best bet with text stuff is a CSS edit but not sure where to find the CSS for a plugin in Genesis’ ecosystem.
AFA the theme being 1140 px… the default size of the slider is substantially less than that right? AFAICT.