I think you should make it clear that you are talking about bold, purely typographic logos (which i assume you are?) especially when you use statements such as “Overall, less letter spacing works best for most logo designs”, because if you are not, then a lot of what you say could be quite misleading.

I can think of hundreds of beautifully designed logos, where the extended spacing between letters perfectly compliments a slightly more condensed illustration or symbol and helps to balance the logo as a whole. Remember, there are no ‘rules’ in design, and it’s often elements such as contrast and balance that make designs beautiful and functional.

Secondly, most of us accept that Adobe Illustrator is the industry-standard for logo work; only an amateur (we all used to be one – don’t lie!) would attempt use Photoshop to create a working logo for a company. HOWEVER, Photoshop can still be very useful during the creation process. For example, sometimes filters, displacement maps & other things are just easier & faster to pull off/render in Photoshop FIRST to see how they are going to look. Then, if you don’t like how it looks, at least you didn’t waste extra time in Illustrator; that “rendering” bar can take an infuriating amount of time should you end up not liking the result of applying a particular filter or effect. Conversely, if it turns out that you (and/or your client) do like the direction the look & feel is taking, then you use the best of your abilities to make it happen in Illustrator. You can’t mimic everything in either software (at least, I can’t), but you can get ideas and get pretty close. Sometimes, Illustrator is faster, sometimes not. Either way, we know the final design will be in Illustrator – so LAY OFF the douchey comments, Kumo. It’s coming off as a know-it-all troll posting rather than useful insight on how to further enhance future articles to help budding and professional designers’ skill sets & resources. I’m very grateful for every article like this that takes time to teach and not skip important steps, no matter how trivial they may seem to adept readers. If you have something along these lines to provide, by all means post a helpful [i.e. not "snide"] comment or – better yet – offer up a useful tutorial of your own.