What Adobe Application Should I Use to create a modern photo collage which contains: Images, text and graphics

jackc89950969  wrote not going to lie but this photoshop vs indesign is confusing me

You did ask the question, "what application is best for this", and you got an answer. Or several.

Photoshop has such massive market saturation nowadays that people think it should be used for everything and anything. But that's not correct. It's strictly a raster image editor, and for anything beyond that there is specialist software that is better. Like InDesign, or Illustrator, for that matter.

Looks like there are two camps Photoshop vs InDesign any AI user going pitch a tent?

That shouldn't happen.

Both Photoshop and InDesign by default will preserve and honor all embedded color profiles. So as long as your placed files have embedded profiles - and you haven't changed anything in the apps' Color Settings - they should be absolutely identical.

InDesign doesn't have a single global color mode. It can handle RGB and CMYK content in the same document, and both will be treated as such.

There is one gotcha for CMYK content in InDesign. Here, the default policy is to "Preserve Numbers", which is the same as "Assign Profile" in Photoshop. There are good reasons for this (mainly to avoid K-only black turning into 4-color black) - but images should normally be kept RGB and standard procedure is to place RGB images. This will always be treated and displayed correctly in InDesign.

Do you have the same interface color in both applications? If they are different it will affect your whole perception of brightness. Interface color is a very important part of your viewing environment.

Preferably i wanted it adapted for social media and print if possible?

The finals output file will most likely be a jpeg file that has no vectors no transparency a background layer. Vector graphics are not required for creating a collage and as you wrote Photoshop has vector text and some vector graphics features and vector tools.  You have not written anything about InDesign that leads me to believe its is better suite then Photoshop.  I'm sure Collages will be created differently using the tools best suite the the job in each application,  What InDesign features make InDesign better suited.  What would make me want to learn a complex Adobe Application to created Collages when they are so easy to create in Photoshop  a product I know well.  I know nothing about InDesign what is in InDesign that is a must have for Collages or make InDesign better suited.  Is there a feature in InDesign that is better than Photoshop  Data Driven Graphics.  Is there an InDesign Scripting feature that is better than Photoshop scripting.  What make you state InDesign is best.   If you know Photoshop Collages are simple.  They may be simple also in InDesign also I would not dispute that.  Best is subjective IMO.  I do not believe there is a clear best.

I just took a breif look at indesign scripting it seem to me that InDesign is better suited for creating multipage documents with page layouts with margins and what nots.

It would be Photoshop for me as well, and you're most familiar with it already.

Hi Jack,

I agree with Dag. InDesign is best for photo collages. You can fade one photo into another as a non-destructive effect, which can be edited quite easily, or even deleted.