Well, today I learned. But if both OP and their friend are tech savvy enough to get a cracked copy of Adobe stuff, then they're probably tech savvy enough to get PhotoGimp working. Both are simple things, after all. Plus, if they can't get PhotoGimp working or need the auto-removal or auto-selecting stuff, then I saw someone mention a couple of other alternatives. So they could use one of those, assuming those fit their needs.

I don't know if anyone else mentioned it, but GIMP is free and apparently has a plugin that makes it look and feel exactly like Photoshop. It's entirely legal as well, so Adobe can't do anything about it.

Might be good to know, if you OR your friend wanna use Phototshop, but don't wanna give Adobe any money. Edit: I can't say anything about other Adobe software, though. This is just for Photoshop, as far as I know.

I don't know if you're looking for a phone that just doesn't go under the Google name and can run alrernate OS's, or if you're looking for a phone that's completely separate from Google, but Motorola and GrapheneOS are discussing plans to make it so GrapheneOS is compatible with Motorola phone, and it's estimated that something will come of it by next year. Other than that, at least one other person mentioned it, but your best bet is sadly a Pixel phone. For now, that is.