Photo ibooks author

Hi,
I'm putting a book together with portraits (photo's), audio and text. But when I have transferred it to my iPad I can't tap the photo to make it fullscreen. I can pinch it but it won't 'stick'. It seems simple but it doesn't seem to work only in gallery but I have just one portrait on each page.
Anybody an idea?
Fjodor Buis

If you select the image, go to the inspector and click on the "Widget" (folder with a gear in the middle) tab you can add a "frame" by selecting one or all of the check boxes (title, caption, background) and you end up with a photo which will expand to full screen when tapped on the iPad.
It works great and if you don't need a title or a caption, just leave the text box empty.
However! There does appear to be a problem if you set up one of these frames in your template. For now, when I drag and drop a new image over the "framed" placeholder, the new image appears just fine. But, when you open the eBook on the iPad, the full-screen images all come up as the original placeholder image.
I haven't found a way to fix this, so as it stand right now I will have to layout each of these pages by hand. Not the end of the world for the size document I'm working on, but one **** of a job for anyone with a large batch of images to work with.
Hopefully someone will come up with the hidden attribute that needs changing in order to fix this.

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Re 'as Apple suggessted' I should have said - no larger than 5000 x 5000 pixels (the 3240 was my vertical proportional dimension from choosing 5000 horizintal dimension)
this is from Ibooks Author help
Add and edit photos and other images
You can add a photo or other image (in a supported file type) to a page in your book by dragging the photo from theMedia Browser, the Finder, or another application.
After adding a photo to your book and positioning it on the page, you can use the tools in iBooks Author to mask (crop) the photo; change its brightness, contrast, and other image qualities; or erase its background.
Important: When you export your book for distribution outside the iBookstore, images are automatically scaled to a width of 2048 pixels, which is optimized for iPad with Retina display. Readers can view these images on other iPad models, but the viewing experience might be slower. You can improve the viewing experience on iPad models without Retina display by using images no wider than 1024 pixels.
ShowMask (crop) a photo
ShowChange a photo’s brightness, contrast, and other settings
ShowRemove the background or unwanted elements from a photo
Important: Images can’t be larger than 25 megapixels (5000 x 5000 pixels) or 50 MB.
SEE ALSO
Add an accessibility description to an object
Add a title, label, or caption to an object
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