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QUESTION

I would like to make a slide of only one image without any borders or any other beamer specific element.

I tried :

\begin{frame}[plain]
\includegraphics[keepaspectratio=true,width=1\paperwidth]{kernel-panic.png}
\end{frame}

But I still get a border on the left, top and bottom.

Later edit: width=1.2\paperwidth seems to remove top and bottom borders. I still have a left border and some navigation elements on bottom right.

ANSWER

This works:

\documentclass{beamer}
\title{test of full size graphic}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetheme{AnnArbor}

\begin{document}

\begin{frame}
    \maketitle
    Notice the fancy presentation theme.
\end{frame}

{ % all template changes are local to this group.
    \setbeamertemplate{navigation symbols}{}
    \begin{frame}[plain]
        \begin{tikzpicture}[remember picture,overlay]
            \node[at=(current page.center)] {
                \includegraphics[width=\paperwidth]{yourimage}
            };
        \end{tikzpicture}
     \end{frame}
}

\begin{frame}
    symbols should be back now
\end{frame}

\end{document}

You have to run beamer twice to get the image centered in the right place. But if you have any other aux-file tricks (e.g., table of contents) you need to do that anyway.

If you're not already using tikz, you can save your image as a pdf and then use \includepdf (part of the pdfpages package). This will get you into trouble if you want to print your slides as an article or handout, though.

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