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SERIF’S AFFINITY SUITE of creativity apps, recently completed with the release of Publisher, has a quirk not found elsewhere. Each app is divided into sections, known as Personas, which are tailored toward a specific task, and which change the layout of the controls when you enter them. Affinity Photo, for example, has the Photo Persona, for carrying out most image editing; the Liquify Persona, for pixel-bending effects; the Develop Persona, for processing raw image files; the Tone Mapping Persona, for creating HDR images; and the Export Persona, for busting down file sizes and fine-tuning compression ratios. Vector graphics app Designer has something similar, while Publisher acts as a keystone, tying the others together, integrating them into its Personas, so…