There's lots of things, both personal and professional, that you can do with Easel. Birthday cards. Composite pictures for sales brochures or proposals. Posters for presentations. Scrapbook pages. They can be as serious or as whimsical as you desire. One thing they all have in common, though: when people see them, they'll ask "How did you do that?"
Over the two years that Easel has been in development, I've used it repeatedly for personal reasons and test purposes. Here are some examples.
You can create a family "year in pictures:"
You can create a nifty real estate flyer in 5 minutes flat:
You can make a cartoon for your daughter, showing what the cats are really thinking as they hang out in the shower:
You can turn a pair of snapshots into oval portraits that look matted. The real thing, printed at high resolution on 8x10, doesn't have the jagged edges you see here, took 10 minutes to do, and still hangs in my wife's office.
You can suck up to your mother-in-law by giving her a collage of her kids and grandkids out sailing with Uncle Bill:
You can create graphics for your son's web site:
You can help him combine his scanned artwork with your snapshots into a much-appreciated present for his favorite bird-watching companion (aka his mom):
You can create a collage of pictures of the new kittens, print it on a T-shirt transfer, and create a garment that your daughter refuses to take off (ditto for your son's carefully painted "warhammer" guys):
Then you can use up the good will by poking gentle fun with a comic strip using pictures of her science fair project:
You can crank out a valentine for your wife (she liked it, but not so much that I didn't need to buy flowers):
You can scan some old pictures and make a collage of your son's "firsts" (birthday, Halloween, etc)
And document his budding urge to destroy things:
You can document the day at the beach when your wife and daughter caught a really nice wave:
You can scan really old pictures and make posters for your parents' 60th anniversary party (they were a big hit with young and old alike):
And should you need to, you can even make the intro screen for any software you plan to write (albeit with some help from Photoshop):
Note: Larger copies of many of these samples are available at http://www.whippleware.com/whip/composer/samples