>can be a bit non-intuitive
"a bit" here means "it'll take you a couple hundred hours to semi-master it" kek.
also free (for Mac at least) is Photo Image Editor Pixelstyle. NOT BAD. I prefer it to gimp for simplicity, but neither is simple, and gimp enables you to do more.
Here is a free site that'll remove background/crop any person or the main subject of any photo in like 2 seconds. CLEAN, FAST… it's SOOOOOOOOOO useful. Saves boatloads of time,
https://www.remove.bg/upload
Just drag any image to that screen and your background is removed in 2-3 secs. For Comey, I first cropped the pic down to just the portion that contained him (yields larger, higher-def end result, and confuses the AI assessing the image less with a convoluted background like that one).