Can I import drawings and photos into Illustrator to create a vector image?

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What I bring to the software is my background in studio arts 2D and 3D.  Photography is a tool to support both of these activities.  Over the years that skill has developed and I have many great photos.  The photos make me a little nuts now that I focus on digital.  In digitals photos I easily have over 60,000 photos.  I have some experience with Photoshop.  I won’t say I am a proficient but will say I have good skills in it.   I created my first logo in Photoshop.  Of course it is not vector and I know it should be vector.  I did it at no charge for a nonprofit.  They were very pleased.  I would still like to create a vector form of the logo.  Awhile back I purchased a book titled “Illustrator CS5 on demand”.  It breaks it down in a way that Illustrator is less intimidating.  It has renewed my interest in Illustrator.  How do I more effectively merge all of these tools and skills?  How do I bring what I know to Illustrator’s table? I know there are great possibilities here if I can learn to build vector graphics.  

Spencer,
Basically, you have two ways to go from raster images to vector artwork, namely to Live/Auto Trace and to redraw/recreate.
The former is (only) suitable for certain kinds of artwork/intended appearances, such as photolike.
The latter is the way to get simple/clean/smooth/accurate artwork that is truly scalable. In some cases you can use basic kinds of shapes such as circles/ellipses, squares/rectangles, (other) polygons, stars, spirals, and so on. In other cases you can draw with the Pen/Line/Pencil/Brush Tool, the first being the main general tool. You may place (File>Place) the original raster artwork (maybe in its own layer) and lock it, then recreate on top (maybe in another layer) so you can follow the original.

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