I'm looking for an utility which can let me warp an image by hooking points
in the image and dragging these points (not as many utilities do by setting
some points and then starting the warping process).
I don't really do graphics, but I did run across this after reading
your message.
http://www.debugmode.com/winmorph/
"WinMorph used to morph faces of friends and family in a roadshow to
promote new softdrinks from Britvic, UK. A Windows version of WinMorph
is part of the roadshow taking pictures captured from a digital camera
dynamically and morphing them for public display. Click here to visit
the softdrink company website, or here to read the news article about
it.
WinMorph was used for creating the morphing title sequence for the
movie Dreamcatcher. Click here to visit the movie website."
"Professional quality warping and morphing tools.
Works both as a standalone application and as a plug-in for various
video editors to get best of both worlds.
Intuitive shape-based morphing for both ease of use and high degree of
freedom.
Advanced keyframing, blending and distortion tools for total control.
Can do dynamic morphing (also called video morphing).
Input file formats include JPEG,BMP,PCX,PNG,PBM,TGA,TIFF.
Output file formats include JPEG,BMP,PNG,TGA,TIFF,AVI,MPEG and SWF
(that's right, Flash!)."
It might be worth a look if you haven't already.