Hey Todd,
Check my screenshot below, do you mean you would like your showcase become like this?
If yes, you can try download the latest launcher installer from
http://stackideas.com/dashboard then install through in your Joomla installer, because we have updated some styling regarding the showcase module.
After you updated, if you would like to remove the border line around the showcase module, you can try apply following css code in your template css and see how it goes?
/* adjust showcase border line */
div#fd.eb .mod-easyblogshowcase.st-2 .eb-gallery-stage {
border: 0px !important;
}
If you still see the grey area exist on your showcase, I am not encourage you to remove is because if you have post cover on the post, it will show a list of image tab on grey area.
If you still would like to remove it, you can try apply following css code in your template css file :
/* adjust the grey area */
div#fd.eb .mod-easyblogshowcase .eb-gallery-menu {
display: none !important;
}
/* adjust the grey area */
div#fd.eb .mod-easyblogshowcase {
margin-bottom: 0px !important;
}