Designing a booklet using Photoshop....

[R.O.S.S.I]

Hi all just been tasked with designing a bit of a booklet to advertise our service and to give out at conferences and meetings etc.

I've been reading that inDesign is the best thing to design a booklet in (we'd like it to be about 10 pages or so, stapled in the middle), however we do not own a copy of inDesign, we only have Photoshop.

Now i'm fairly proficient in Photoshop, are there any glaringly obvious reasons why it would be a bad idea for designing each page in Photoshop?

AFAIK the place where it will be printed just takes a PDF of each page to compile the booklet and goes from there.

 

[R.O.S.S.I]

isn't there a 30 day free trial of inDesign?

Yeh there is, im downloading it at the moment.

The actual booklet wont have too many columns etc and what not. Its just little paragraphs of information each page. It won't be like a magazine or anything with loads of different columns so layout it pretty straightforward really!

Not sure what baseline grids and slug margins are!

Will probably give inDesign a peep shortly when the trials downloaded. It'd probably make this process a whole lot easier I'd imagine.

 

[R.O.S.S.I]

How easy is it to move a design from Photoshop to inDesign? Can it be done?

I had a bit of a play around with inDesign and short of watching loads of tutorial videos I'm a bit clueless how to set it up past the initial bit of setting your page size and number of pages etc.

I'm pressed for time to get it done so was thinking if I made each page in Photoshop could it then be cut and pasted over to inDesign? Or will that not work?

Ta