Adding "black" lines and text to image scans

I'm currently running Acrobat 9 Pro, under XP.
I scan documents as black-and-white PDF image files. They usually contain handwritten text. OCR is not applicable (at least, as far as I know there's little if anything that currently exists that's realistic for doing OCR on hand-written text).
I just leave them as images of the handwritten text, and that's generally okay for my purposes.
However, I often want to go in and "edit" a little bit of that handwritten text -- just a few words here and there -- either by sometimes crossing things out or sometimes deleting them (or whiting them out, or covering them with a white box), and adding a text box with new typed text either over or between existing handwritten text..
I know how to do most of that (well, I could use a few pointers on deleting or whiting out handwritten words), but I don't know how to make it all "black" so it tends to blend better with the color of the scan itself. Currently, lines I draw and text I enter appear red. How do I make them appear black so it blends better?
Can I do that?
Or do I need to upgrade to be able to do that?
Thanks.

I'm not sure we're on the same page. I already have no probelm drawing a white box to cover existing text (remember, this is all "images" since I'm just scanning in handwritten pages and not using OCR on them at all) and I can already draw a text frame to enter text into, just as I can already draw lines to cross things out that I don't want to just cover with a white box. I'm just looking for a way to make that text and those lines black instead of red (and for anything else that might make the process more elegant).
Thanks.

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{"os_version":"iOS 8.0.2 (12A405)","bug_type":"110"}
Incident Identifier: 953608D1-09CF-4B9E-A2B2-F1B504534874
CrashReporter Key:   e669fec46b9c53c7ff9529a93d02456c675e4851
Hardware Model:      iPad2,2
Date/Time:           2014-10-07 11:20:43.190 +0700
OS Version:          iOS 8.0.2 (12A405)
panic(cpu 0 caller 0xa042a347): "i2c2::_checkBusStatus Bus is still in a bad state; last read status 00010110 xfer 00000000 fifo 00000000 for device gyro"
Debugger message: panic
OS version: 12A405
Kernel version: Darwin Kernel Version 14.0.0: Thu Sep 18 21:52:05 PDT 2014; root:xnu-2783.1.72~23/RELEASE_ARM_S5L8940X
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