IBooks Author gallery widgets appearing black

I'm currently trying to make an iBook document however when I click on some of the gallery widgets to make them come up full screen they are just black. Also all of the options such as fill, opacity etc are grey and cannot be changed on these ones that don't work yet can be changed on those that do work.

are you using jpg or png format for the images?

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