I'm not sure if I've lead you up the wrong path

What do you mean by "current items image only" ?

I was thinking you would display the various k2 item images linked to the item pages in Zentools and then below the module would be the same pages text via a k2 page

Cheers
Paul

ok, understood

basically what i'm trying to do is show the k2 item / article image as full width, just like one the newstream2 homepage

so if we take this page here - thumped.com/movie-reviews/inherent-vice.html I want it to look like this

Well the only way to do that would be to use the same position for the slideshow and then use the sidebar instead of the home page positions

Just so you could see what I was talking about (not the same thing