Thanks, Scythe! I had seen that page. I'll just need to see if I can decipher the Info in there to correspond to whether the specific functions I'm curious about exist in Photoshop Elements of not.
She already uses GIMP a little bit. Since she was having such a hard time with it, I told her Photoshop is actually more efficient, friendlier and just plain ole easier to use. I'm pretty good with Photoshop, but my 3 or so sessions with GIMP earlier in the week left me NOT liking it one bit. Functions that are so obvious, simple and efficient in Photoshop ... are quite the opposite in GIMP.