Illustrator Help with adding color to Live Trace'd text

[Gerald Martin]

Hi. I have a text heading that I warped in photoshop so it looks like it's heading towards a vanishing point. I did it in photoshop because I don't think you can do it in Adobe Illustrator. Well, I placed it in Illustrator, Live Trace>Make & Expand. So now i can resize the text without losing resolution but now I can't change the color of the text. It turned it to just solid black. I tried to isolate the letters I want in red but when I try to change the color it just turns it gray regardless. Can anyone help? Thanks!

 

[hawkeye]

You can warp text in Illustrator too, object-envelope distort-make with warp.

 

[SPWA]

Just check when you click on one of the letters, that they are not set to Grayscale (in the color window). Any color applied will show as a shade of gray. Maybe switch it to CMYK or RGB depending on your purpose for the text.

 

[Gerald Martin]

Thank you both for you help. I also just found out about the Free Transform Tool that if anyone else needed to know.