High-res modeling?

Hi, I'm new to makehuman though i have some experience with 3d modeling software (Iclone 6 more specifically). The thing is that i prefere makehuman: it's free and allows more customization. But i found it difficult to work with the predetermined textureless figurr (aka the red dude). I know that you can change the skin texture and i did it, but it doesnt improves that much. It still seems low-res though of a different color. Now if i entet the edit texture menu i can see the figure as i guess it supposes to be: high-res with ilumination and stuff. But as soon as i exit this menu and start modeling, my fcharacter goes back to tits default low res mode. My question is: is there any way to do proper modeling while seing how the final figure will look (high-res)? I'll find that way much easy to work. Thanks for reading 
