Merge approved PhotoCraft PR #3387: feat(codecs): add lossless JPEG XL export for 8/16-bit images

Port behavior and regression coverage into current modules; preserve current upstream behavior.
Integrate lossless export-only JXL and independent decoder regression matrix, preserving current JPEG/TIFF save extensions and 12-bit/arithmetic JPEG decoder dependency.
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# Raster formats
`photocraft-codecs` provides format detection, capability declarations, decode limits, metadata handling, and encoding for flat images. The default build declares read/write support for PNG, JPEG, TIFF, WebP, GIF, BMP, TGA, ICO, Netpbm/PFM, QOI, OpenEXR, and Radiance HDR. HEIF/HEIC (iPhone and Mac photos) is read-only, decoded in pure Rust by `heic-rs` through the optional `photocraft-heif` crate. It is a build-time choice behind the `heif` cargo feature (`cargo build -p photocraft --features heif`): official builds include it; without it HEIC files are still recognised and opening one reports that HEIC support isn't included in that build. AVIF encoding is optional; AVIF decoding is not implemented in the current crate.
`photocraft-codecs` provides format detection, capability declarations, decode limits, metadata handling, and encoding for flat images. The default build declares read/write support for PNG, JPEG, TIFF, WebP, GIF, BMP, TGA, ICO, Netpbm/PFM, QOI, OpenEXR, and Radiance HDR. HEIF/HEIC (iPhone and Mac photos) is read-only, decoded in pure Rust by `heic-rs` through the optional `photocraft-heif` crate. It is a build-time choice behind the `heif` cargo feature (`cargo build -p photocraft --features heif`): official builds include it; without it HEIC files are still recognised and opening one reports that HEIC support isn't included in that build. AVIF encoding is optional; AVIF decoding is not implemented in the current crate. Lossless JPEG XL (.jxl) export uses the pure-Rust `zune-jpegxl` encoder for 8/16-bit gray, RGB and RGBA data; gray+alpha is expanded to RGBA at the same bit depth. JPEG XL import is tracked separately in #2868.
## Layered TIFF
A TIFF saved by Photoshop with its layers carries them in two private tags: 37724 (`ImageSourceData`, the same layer section a PSD has, preceded by the string `Adobe Photoshop Document Data Block`) and 34377 (the PSD image resources). `photocraft-codecs` passes both through as opaque bytes on `Metadata`; `photocraft-io` rebuilds a PSD model from them plus the TIFF's pixels and hands it to the PSD importer, so groups, masks, layer styles, type, shapes, smart objects and adjustment layers open from a TIFF exactly as from a PSD, and are written back the same way. In Intel-order (`II`) files Photoshop stores the whole block structure byte-swapped (reversed keys such as `MIB8` and `ryaL`, little-endian integers and doubles) while pixel samples stay big-endian; `photocraft-psd`'s `tiff` module converts between the two orders field by field, and drops, with a warning, any block whose layout it does not know rather than pass byte-swapped data to other readers. Limits: up to sixteen extra samples (spot colours and alpha channels, plus a Quick Mask) are written in the IFD and round-trip, with Photoshop image resources for the channel name, ink colour and solidity; Lab documents are saved flat, with their extra samples. Save As asks "Including layers will increase file size" (with "Discard Layers and Save a Copy") while *Ask Before Saving Layered TIFF Files* is on in Preferences › File Handling. Scripted and agent saves write a flat TIFF unless they ask for layers: `--tiff-layers` for `photocraft-cli convert`, `run` and `batch`, and `"tiffLayers": true` in the save, batch and export commands and MCP `doc_save`.
## JPEG XL
Save As, Export As and the CLI can write a lossless, single-image `.jxl` bare
codestream at 8 or 16 bits per sample. Gray, RGB and RGBA are encoded
natively. Grayscale with alpha is expanded to RGBA at the original bit depth
to preserve both grayscale and alpha samples. For 16-bit RGBA the encoder's
incorrect default 8-bit alpha header is corrected to explicitly describe
16-bit alpha, with an independent decoder oracle checking alpha values.
The bare codestream has no ICC, EXIF, XMP or DPI boxes; the export path
converts tagged RGB to sRGB and surfaces metadata losses as fidelity warnings.
JPEG XL opening remains under review in #2868.
## WebP
Lossless WebP (VP8L) is encoded and decoded by `image-webp`. Lossy WebP is written by PhotoCraft's own VP8 key-frame encoder in `crates/codecs/src/codecs/vp8`, a clean-room implementation of RFC 6386: BT.601 4:2:0 conversion, 16×16 and 4×4 intra prediction chosen per macroblock by reconstruction error, the forward DCT and Walsh-Hadamard transforms paired with the bit-exact inverse transforms, quantisation on the RFC's `dc_qlookup`/`ac_qlookup` tables, token coding with per-frame probability updates, and skipped macroblocks for flat areas. `EncodeOptions::webp_lossless` picks the encoder and `webp_quality` (0–100, the libwebp scale) sets the quantiser; alpha travels losslessly in an `ALPH` chunk and ICC/EXIF/XMP in their own chunks of the extended (`VP8X`) container. The decoder applies the frame's loop filter; no C library is involved on either side.