How do you do this in gimp?

Question

One, I want to know what effects were put on these photos, and how I would be able to do something similar:

http://i335.photobucket.com/albums/m457/kathrynclaireisabella/twilight icons/083.png

http://i331.photobucket.com/albums/l473/GenoByaRukifan/Icons/lol.png

http://i149.photobucket.com/albums/s75/mabudachi3/Twilight/oh-Edward-avatar-1.png

You see how they have that clear thin white layer, idk how to describe it.

And two, I want to learn how to place a person into another picture.

Thanks so much!

Answer 1

I had the same problem as Cody.

But it looks like the saturation [or brightness] was lowerded, giving it sort of that foggy effect. Higher contrast as well.

Maybe a little bit of red coloring was added. It doesn't seem to hard, any simple editing program could do it. Just play around with your options, I'm sure you'll get it.

Answer 2

Two of those pictures don't work, so, I'm a little confused ...