I cannot get jpeg I import to resize, move, text wrap. Extremely frustrated. Any help please?

Question

I've gone through the help sections and tips.  I bring in an image, and cannot resize it.  I use the image mask and am able to crop the image to what I need.  But, it is placed badly in the middle of the page, won't resize, and worst of all-I cannot move the image without it disappearing out of the box and removing itsself from the page.  Text won't warp around the image, and all of the so-called controls are greyed out, wether I have the image selected or not.
My question is:  How the H#%% do I work with an image in ibooks author?  Is this program messed up?  Is Apple planning to fix this?  These actions are easy to do in Pages, but iBooks does not work!  What box did I not check right to work with pictures?

Answer 1

Consider the image and tbe mask as two separate items.
You can move the image itself which is below the mask, and you can move and resize the mask itself as you choose to "crop" or size the image.  Use the handles on each to move or resize and also the size slder on tbe mask.
Deselecting or clicking off the image closes the mask and you  should be able to move image as you chose.
With regards your last paragraph....the answer is to learn about iBooks Author and what it can do, before starting out on a serious book project. The program is not messed up. You must have spent time learning tbe ins snd outs of Pages at first, iBA is similar to Pages in many ways.
Go to your iTunes Connect page and open the Deliver your Content,  Top section Featured Resourses, there is a user guide and a formatting guide and below in iBooks Author ..is a superb instructional video. It will show you how to use many of the functions including the mask.