Why does my cropped image disappear?

After importing a jpeg file into my pages document, I have tried repeatedly to crop ("mask") the unwanted portions of the image. When I am finished applying the mask, I have double-clicked on the image--exactly as the "help" page instructs--and the image completely disappears, leaving only the masked portion. I have tried double-clicking on the image, on the mask, on an area outside of the image and mask, and on the "edit" symbol below the mask. Every time the image disappears. What am I doing wrong?

If you have masked it:
Menu > Format > Mask with Shape > Choose
don't you expect that the masked area is all that you will see when you are finished?
There are several selections in the masking:
1. The mask (Shape) itself, clicking on the mask handles you can size it
2. The image which may or may not extend outside the mask. Clicking outside the mask, you get a grabber hand and can drag the image around inside the mask or resize it from the images handles
3. The cropped image dragging on the corners or sides resizes the mask & the contents
Clicking away from the image, sets the last edit.
Possibly the image is very large and you are only seeing a tiny portion of it, say a corner.
Have you clicked on the little and big icons in the Edit bar to rescale it as necessary?
Peter

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