Confused by the title? Me too. I had to take a common object and manipulate the colors a little bit to make it less common… now do you get it? Yea me neither. I was wandering around and I thought hey! what is more common than a light switch? And then I decided to make it uncommon.

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I was going to post a tutorial on how to do this but I really just started playing around with the color options in Gimp. Before long I had changed the hues, color perspective, and I even added some color noise. I did more but I can’t remember and never will.