Hello peeps, I just installed Illustrator CS and have been messing around with the basic pencil tool with my mouse and I haven't actually gotten around to working yet. I actually have used Illustrator before but way back in the day on a mac while it was still like version 5 or whatever. I am wondering now if Illustrator automatically picks up on pressure for things like dynamic sizes or opacity with a tablet. I know Photoshop can do this with raster work, but the stuff I am doing needs to be scalable and I'd rather not draw something huge in Photoshop if I can do it just as well in vector form. If anyone knows, for things like simple logo work is it going to be easier (or save me time) to do this as vector in Illustrator or should I just do it in Photoshop? I also haven't done that much vector stuff in Photoshop but I know it kinda supports it now, anyone have any experience with that?

Thanks for any input guys.

I think if you are doing logo work and want to keep it scalable you're better off keeping it in illustrator. You can always import it to photoshop afterwards if you need to. I haven't used photoshop for vector but i'm assuming it has very limited abilities since that is pretty much the only reason they have 2 different programs. Apparently it would be pretty easy to have photoshop and illustrator in one program. I know illustrator 10 has pressure sensitivity with the pen tool but other than that i'm not sure. Plus doing it in illustrator will keep your file size down.

Logos should always be done with a vector program, particularly if you're concerned about printing quality. If you make the logo vector, you can make it any size you wish and the quality never changes (as you're probably aware). I just vectorized a logo in Illustrator for a some start up company, you can see the quality of my logo is much greater than the jpeg logo:

http://www.angelfire.com/rings/cloxboy/companylogo.gif

I know, the logo is lame but they paid me to vectorize the logo, not redesign it.

They should have paid you to redesign it.
The logo doesn't really represent anything
Looks like it should be singing in a disney cartoon

HAHA, exactly. It looks like clip art, bah!

Hey, thanks for the help guys. I ended up using Illustrator for everything and the guy liked it alot. I personally thought the logos weren't all that interesting, but he wanted everything super simple and stuff (think the nike swoosh or something). I really like how high quality everything looked, but the one thing that bugged me (and still does right now) is how hard it is to grab anchor points/handles sometimes. I need to get used to Illustrator again!

Thanks again, you guys helped me alot.

If I didn't know and use Illustrator, I wouldn't have a job.
Well, I wouldn't have a job I like doing.