Text from Photoshop to Indesign

Hello everyone! I'm new to InDesign
I'm working on a DVD cover, wich eventually is sent to print.
I work with the images in Photoshop and the text in InDesign (placing the PSD file into InDesign). So far, so good.
But, now I have this special title treatment wich includes layer styles made in Photoshop.
So the question is - how do I import this to Indesign as vector or simply, what is the best solution here?
Thanks in advance

There are two ways: keep the text in Photoshop or highlight the text (with the type tool) copy, then paste into InDesign. Formatting and effects will need to be recreated. If you go this way, I suggest changing the opacity of the type layer in Photoshop and using that as a template to reformat the type and effects in InDesign. Unfortunately the formats of type and effects are incompatible. The programs are very different and handle data in very different ways. While anything is possible through programming, all resources are limited and Adobe has (wisely) not devoted their programming resources to this.
If all you want is to retain the vector format of the type, then save your Photoshop file as Photoshop PDF instead of PSD. All Photoshop features are supported and the file will remain fully editable in Photoshop, but type will come through as vectors, if it can (live filters will force rasterization, but most effects will not).

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