Photoshop for brochure layout?

Question

Hello,
I'm quite familiar with photoshop, but haven't used InDesign quite as much. I know how to do the basics in it, but I find that it's much easier to just to the whole layout in Photoshop. Is it ok to export a photoshop eps out of photoshop and run it through distiller for the final piece? Or what I've also been doing is just placing the .psd file in InDesign and using that to print/export.
I'm modifying so many things in Photoshop that it would be much more difficult to do that in InDesign such as editing photos, creating masks for photos etc dn then adding text in there. Would it be best to do the initial layout in photoshop and rebuild it in InDesign to keep as many things vector as possible? Thanks,

Answer 1

What would be the 'correct' way of doing it from the start while having to do alot of image editing throughout the layout process?
The correct way would be whatever you/your customer accepts with regard to effort, expenditure and the final product’s quality, I guess.
Doing the whole thing in Photoshop has drawbacks.
For example there seems to be no provision to set the bleed- and trim-boxes in Photoshop and they are requirements for PDF-X, so one would have to set them in Acrobat or some layout application.
Neither can one create multi-page PDFs from Photoshop CS5 directly anymore.
And large amounts of type might be handled considerably more comfortable in Indesign and Illustrator.
Furthermore Indesign and Illustrator offer advantages when it comes to combining external files, such as logos, across multiple documents, even though Photoshop’s Smart Objects can be utilized to emulate that to some degree.