I am still at the stage of blundering along, clicking away and being very familiar with undo

This is a good reference and I have hopes of adding method to my madness...
http://www.freetimefoto.com/photoshop/f ... llery.html

This is written for Photoshop. I didn't do a line-by-line check, but I'm pretty sure we have every one of those filters in Elements -- and then some.

Rusty

Great resource Rusty, thanks for posting.