Photo editor: fade a photo and draw on top of it?

I want to "fade" JPG pictures of people and then draw on top of them with a brush tool to emphasize posture (for instructional purposes) and save as a JPG. By "fade" I mean lighten the pic so that my drawn lines will stand out.
It appears that GIMP will do this. Can you also do that with SeaShore? In their documentation it is not clear to me; I get bogged down with tech lingo about layers and transparent colors and so on. My goal is to find a tool to do the above without getting something way more sophisticated than I need. Thanks for any help.
Fran

I'm not familar with GIMP, but I can shed some light onto the layers and transparency you would need to use.
Layers are quite simple. They are like a stack of papers, you can see the page on top, and the page below if it sticks out beyond the edges of the top sheet. The same is true in photo programs. You will see the top layer, and things behind it will be obscured by the objects or images on the top layer.
Transparency is the "fade" you are looking for. Note that Opacity is the opposite of transparency (as in 100% opaque is 0% transparent). My reducing transparency on a layer, you allow the layers behind it to become partially visible, IE you allow them to sneak through.
To accomplish your goal, should should take the images, and fade them by reducing their opacity. I would start with reducing it to 70%, but you'll have to play with it to get things just right.
After doing this, create a new layer, and be sure the new layer is on top off the image layer. In this new layer, take a brush tool and draw whatever you like. You should see you drawing ontop of the photo. If not, I suspect you have actually placed your line layer behind your photo layer, and you should simply trade their locations.
Hope this helps,

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