how to decrease image opacity in css code example

Example 1: background image opacity css

/* Two ways to make images opaque */

div {
	background-color : rgba(120, 120, 120, 0.5) 
   	/* the 0.5 is the value of opacity on a scale of 0-1 */
}

/* OR */

div {
	background-color : blue
    opacity : 50%
}

Example 2: transparent background css

div {
  width: 200px;
  height: 200px;
  display: block;
  position: relative;
}

div::after {
  content: "";
  background: url(image.jpg);
  opacity: 0.5;
  top: 0;
  left: 0;
  bottom: 0;
  right: 0;
  position: absolute;
  z-index: -1;   
}