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Simply said what they do is

1. Select an area that you want to edit
2. Create a color mask for that area in a seperate layer
3. On the original layer, for the mask area apply an opacity of 50%
4. On the second colored layer, apply also an opacity of 50%
5. Now fuse both layers together

There are enough functions to do something similar to this in OpenCV.