How to avoid jagged edges and thin lines when transferring my vector art to Photoshop and exporting?

For there not to be jagged lines you need a lot of pixels the document needs to be high resolution. When it come down to it,  If  you have a 3"  vector diagonal line there is a world of difference in the quality of the line between a 72PPI rendering and a 600ppi rendering of that vector diagonal line.

Printer print pixels plotter draw vector lines.   Printers are Pixels devices Plotters are vector devices.

Hello,

So first of all, instead of using Layer styles in Photoshop, you can just use Graphic Styles in Illustrator, under the "Effect" menu, and bevel is under 3D. I'm pretty sure the layer styles are bitmap based, and when you export a vector OR a bitmap as a GIF, a JPEG, or a PNG - it is then a Bitmap or Raster file. Which means it is made up of pixels, is large in file size and is NOT scaleable!

A LOGO, should ALWAYS be scaleable - so you can put it on a t-shirt, a business card, key chain, ir Billboard and Plane!

So number one it shoud be a vector file, an .ai file... 2nd... if you are creating a logo... details must be kept to a minimum. When you scale that logo down, you are'nt going to notice the bevel or the highlight in the wings... and even the gradient will make it hard to read. So stay along wtih one of the famous design principles - K.I.S.S (Keep it simple stupid)

Hope this helps.

mark