Photoshop :: Displacement Maps Plugins

What I am looking for is some sort of plugin that takes the tediousness out of it and lets you preview it in realtime.

An ideal plugin would be able to do the following:

-view the source image - image to be displaced.

- View composite image preview(what you see in photoshop when the disp map is applied)

- View Displacement Map preview - hopefully these would be side-by side

I have an image of a face, and an image of text and I want that text to look like it is wrapped onto the face.

Select the face image (ctrl-A) & open the plugin. THis becomes the composite (preview) image

Next to that is the Disp. map. In this case I would check a box that says "use composite as displacement map" It would greyscale the image of the face, and that would be the height/depth disp. map whihc I could then fine tune.

Next to that would be where the image to be displaced is. I open up the image file of the text.

Now I see in the "Composite image" the text wrapped around the face, following the contours of the face. I can adjust the levels of the disp map to create a more dramatic or more subtle effect. WHen I'm finished I click OK.

The "file to be displaced" (in this case, the text image) can also be "same as composite"

If you have ever seen this image where it looks like a photo of a crowd taken from above, but it almost looks liek the height of the people forms Bill Clintons face, this is what this would be used for.

The composite would be the photo of the crowd. The disp map is the photo of clinton's face. SInce the displaced image and the Composite image are the same (via checkbox), you just hit apply after adjusting your disp map. It applies the disp map to the selected original image, and the lights & darks displace the original and give it that look that I just described.

- click to open a source file for the disp. map. - ideally I would be able to open even a color jpg, and it would convert it to greyscale upon opening in the plugin window.

- ability to use the selection (preview composite image) as a displacement map rather than saving & opening it up

- invert the greyscale disp map.

- ability to adjust levels of the alpha/disp map in the preview window in order to darken the darks, etc.

- ability to resize/rescale the dispmap in the preview window. THen in realtime or close to realtime I would see the results in the Source Image preivew window. This way I can shrink or grow the disp map to fit my selection if need be

- Ability to grab the disp map and move it around in order to precisely line it up against the preview image