ausar72 wrote:I could see the face texture fine (a little dark though!)
Try changing the model scale in the Perspective View drop down of the Options menu. Changing it to 20,20,20 can really brighten things up.
This sometimes causes the image to vanish from the perspective window. You will have to zoom way out and pan crazy-like to find it again. But when you do it will be much brighter.
If loosing the image is too much of problem, try increasing a bit at a time.
Go to 5,5,5 and then recenter, 10,10,10 and recenter and so on.