Logo in photoshop --> Vector/pixels?

[frederiquet14460381]

I made a logo for the business of someone I know, but I'm not a professional. Another friend of that someone claims that because I made the logo in Photoshop CC, if she wanted to print the logo or put it on a website it will become very pixelated and ugly. But the logo, exported to PNG, is now 1733 x 1733. Do you think that is a realistic problem? Do I need to make it a vector in Illustrator?

[c.pfaffenbichler]

png is a pixel image format so the image is not vector and output quality can be a legitimate concern.

Have you created the logo in Photoshop using Type Layers, Shape Layers, Vector Masks?

If so you should be able to maintain that content as type/vector in certain file formats (pdf, svg, eps).

[frederiquet14460381]

I believe type layers, It's not that complicated of a file

[c.pfaffenbichler]

Please post a screenshot of the layered file including the Layers Panel.

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Designing a logo as vectors is good working practice. But your nice big size of 1733 pixels should be OK up to about 6 inches Unless it has fine text in it.

[frederiquet14460381]

Fine text?

It has 3 capital letters in it, with some watercolour drawings in the background of it

[frederiquet14460381]

[c.pfaffenbichler]

Apparently you rasterised the type and thus needlessly degraded the potential output quality.

[frederiquet14460381]

So shall I make it in Illustrator again? I don't want to deliver half-work of you know what I mean. Or can I make a new psd-file and make it again without rasterizing it? She wants business cards and a website where she wants to use the logo.

[c.pfaffenbichler]

I already told you file formats one can save out of Photoshop and that can support vector data.

Do the Smart Objects hold more »resolution«?

[c.pfaffenbichler]

I already told you file formats one can save out of Photoshop and that can support vector data, but if you want to combine vector and transparency Illustrator may be the better option.

Do the Smart Objects hold more »resolution«?