I occasionally come up with an idea that I wish to apply to my photos. The inspiration for this effect came from some ‘sketches’ in a book I was reading: Gavin Pretor Pinney ‘The Cloudspotter’s Guide’. The illustrator was Bill Sanderson and you can see some of the illustrations here: https://www.billsandersonart.com/CloudSpottersGuide.php
To do this (and I haven’t seen this effect in Photoshop) I wrote my own image manipulation program. Here are a few examples of the effect:
Below is a side-by-side slider to compare both images with each other
This next set includes a blend with the original image:
Below are 2 comparison pairs using the above 3 images:
Even though I developed the tool I am still learning how to use it for the best effect.