I give up.

Anyone here with experience using Illustrator's (I'm on CS5) Live Trace tool? I can get it to trace easily enough ... but I can't draw on or color on the image afterward! Even after clicking "expand". I can adjust the lines I've created with the direct selection tool, but the paintbrush and the blob paintbrush give me the little circle-with-a-slash image and I can't figure out what to do to convert or whatever the image so I can draw and paint on the damn thing!

I've drawn a very nice little koi - I would LIKE to color the damn thing in!

In conclusion: Illustrator can bite Mello's fabulous ass.