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I used to use Photoshop in my pre-press days to do things mentioned here like cutting people or objects, creating collages, large format posters and so on, so no doubt its very powerful.
For a home user though who just wants to play with RGB images and some digital effects, no harm in downloading GIMP and trying it out, its free after all and has a lot of powerful features for most home users.
Utimately depends on what she wants to do Leon, best way is for her to try it out first and see if it meets her needs. There are so many features there that can be used in many ways. Just search for photoshop tutorials on effects she's interested in and try them out with gimp.
you can get the same effect in a number of ways.
Inkscape is a very powerful vector based program that I simply love and is free as well. she might need to work with vectors sometimes. so good to have installed as well.
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