If you're planning on getting into fee lance work, then now is a good time to brush up on your communication skills.  Clients have a way of requesting work that is not necessarily in their best interest.  You have to demonstrate a way of convincing the client the pros and cons of a particular request.  Good clients will appreciate your honesty and still demand the outlandish.  However way you approach it, any PS elements are going to limit the client.  Perhaps there is a way to produce the logo using vector elements.  If not, you might be better passing on the assignment.  Later, she will come around and realize through trial-and-error that you were right.

Why don't you show her the logos of large and small corporations and let her see that they so not for the most part use shades anbd tints but only use them to add an effectr from time ot time then explain why.

I seldom have a problem when I design a logo, and although I don't get credit for and don't really want to, I once took a bite out of a fruit to design a concept for a log that became a big hit.

I go straight to the point when I design a logo.

So here is a similar example that I had I don't do this stuff any more but it was for Hair Style Salon and they were calling Sabella, just a name the owner liked it wasn't her name but I guess it was Italian and she was of an Italian decent.

She was going to market hair products and she did but it never took offthough i understand thyey were really good t what they did and her products were as well.

She loved the logo at first, but then went crazy and said it wasn't friendly and i explained if she wanted recognition it had to be an easily remembered and visually legible mark.

She hated me even more wehn she realize I was giving her professional advice and that she now felt I was more knowledgeable than she was and she killed the logo.

She went instead for a type face in her mind was stylish and had flair, I explain that at the time there were about a thousand people with the same idea using the same typeface and non of them would survive and none have survived. Her business would stuill be alive and be international tody had she llistened.

I just took the S and turned into a curl.

But she wanted to use a new typeface at the time which I hated and still do called vivaldi

As such

Now to a lot of designers she was correct but in reality her business never got recognition