Is Photoshop the appropriate application for creating pamphlets/ brochures?
Photoshop really is an image editor. You need a good layout program for designing brochures, such as InDesign. (Please stay away from Microsoft Publisher. If you were ever to need your brochure professionally printed, you will have trouble; most professional print shops hate Publisher because it violates all sorts of print standards). Photoshop really is best for manipulating images you may want to put in your brochure. The latest version of Adobe Illustrator can be used for such projects because it now supports multiple artboards, and it handles text better than Photoshop does. With multiple artboards, it is possible to design the front and back of a brochure, each on its own artboard within the same file. You can even flow text from one “page” to the next. And you can bring Photoshop images into Illustrator. When completed, you can then save as a PDF, and the process will automatically create a two-page PDF. However, InDesign is ultimately the best solution, because it is a page layo
