Hi @brownskinwomen!
In the carousel slider type the “slide size” value defines how big your slides are:
https://smartslider3.helpscoutdocs.com/article/74-carousel-type
and then how your image is inside the slide is based on the “Slide background image fill” option: https://smartslider3.helpscoutdocs.com/article/56-slider-settings-general
where defaultly the “Fill” is chosen, which will make your image to be as big, as it has to be to cover your whole slide.
Then you can add links for example at the slide’s setting:
https://smartslider3.helpscoutdocs.com/article/1297-slide-settings-settings
If you still won’t be able to have the display you want, please send me a screenshot of the issue to [email protected], also if you saw something somewhere, how you would like it, please send me a link to there or a screenshot/image about this too.