Understanding InDesign (vs. Illustrator and Photoshop)

[SocialDesignStudios]

Great tut... thanks!

[mcaseupton]

You didn't explain why you should not create a logo in Photoshop?

[raamdev]

The ability to showcase stuff like this is what makes the Internet an indispensable tool for learning. Brilliant!

[yoran35]

Very helpful! Not enough people showcase the workflows between applications.

Thanks.

[sethwright]

My question is why use all these separate programs? Most of the tools seem to overlap. For example, when I was a little less experienced I used illustrator for all logo and vector work and then imported that work to InDesign - then one day I found that many of the tools that I was using Illustrator for such as the Pathfinder toolbox, are in InDesign *also... so do ALL the tools over lap? which ones dont?

[russpears2009]

How would you do a cover with a partial Title/Nameplate overlap? I see people designing covers in Photoshop-and that makes no sense to me. I was shown a technique that avoids the hard clipping path look some do, but it is not relying on some kind of Photoshop alpha channel ether. How do you do this??