Can any of you speak as to whether maps can be done in Photoshop Elements?

I've tried to follow along in a couple of the tutorials, and usually some stuff isn't exactly as described, but I'll manage to figure it out, then all of a sudden I'll get an instruction that I can't figure out what to do with (like something about creating channels, most recently).

It may just be I'm tired and can't think straight at the moment, but if some of you could comment about your opinion of PSE as a map-making tool, I'd appreciate it. I've looked at GIMP in the past - not for map-making, but for a different application, and it never did make a lot of sense to me. So if I can stay with PSE, I'd like to.

Thanks!