I have this problem as well. Indeed I am using twentythirteen.
I noticed that the image is always exactly 20px bigger than the colored box.
So I checked the code and found something odd in post-tiles.php
On line 403 and 410, I found these lines of code:
$posttiles_width = $posttiles_li_width - 20;
$posttiles_height = $posttiles_li_height - 20;
It’s fixed when I removed the -20 on both lines. Why -20 ?