InDesign Newbie in need of assistance

Hi,
I hope I am in the right place.
I need to produce a book, and am looking for a bit of guidance.
The templates have been created in Photoshop. I will also need to include photos and text and am wondering I am better of (for quality purposes) adding the text and photo's in InDesign or Photoshop.
Thanks
B

ALWAYS include your version of InDesign and your OS in your post. We cannot help you if we don’t know what tools you have available. ALWAYS include some hint of your problem in your subject line. “InDesign Newbie in need of assistance” tells us nothing, since this forum is for InDesign users (noobs and otherwise) in need of assistance.
Use InDesign. If your book has more than one page, has any text in it, has anything bleeding (printing to the edge of the page), or will be printed professionally, then InDesign wins over Photoshop in a first round knock out.
Import the photos without text, then add the text in InDesign. You can place the photos with the text so you can see how to format and position the text in InDesign, then hide the text layers in the Photoshop file by right-clicking on the image in InDesign and selecting Object Layer Options.

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