Eevee and Cycles are very different ways to render the scene.
Eevee is more like Game engine related, fast but with most options switch off to keep fast rendering. Eevee has its pitfalls. Cycles on the other hand it has also a learning curve but has better physics which takes longer to calculate. Hence is much slower.
Don’t think too much about this. I know everybody wants to make beautiful things after the first lessons. But there is so much more to learn. Just follow the course, learn Blender first. Then make beautiful scenes.
You can do composting with other tools. You are not obliged to do everything with Blender.
But Blender has a post-processing feature, where you can manipulate many rendered properties as with Photoshop.
Be patient or ask if your are in need of support.