I've read through the documents and as much of the forum as I could and have not been able to resolve this issue.
Images are showing up in the slider area on the home page, but regardless of their size (I have manually resized them to 960x440 and smaller) or format (tried multiple image formats) the image is zoomed in. This happens in Firefox as well as Chrome.
Thanks KaptinLin - Its working properly now. I changed permissions in the appropriate folders per a post in here I hadn't seen before and also removed a plugin that I think was causing an issue (WP Minify). In any case, it's working and I'm happy! Great theme and looking forward to getting it all buttoned up.