Support Large gigapixels with PSB-files

Registered by David Haberthür

It would be desirable if hugin could support/stitch to PSB files ([1], The Large Document Format from Photoshop). Images larger than 4GB can be only sanely edited with this format, as discussed on the mailing list [2]. Additionally, with PSB-files, we could save layered raster files.

There seem to be free implementations for this, but accoring to Jim Watters [3], they are not too active:
  - https://sourceforge.net/projects/libpsd/
  - https://sourceforge.net/projects/openpsd/
Additionally, Jim would like to make clear that Panotools already has functions to read and write basic PSD/PSB files.

Note that Hugin generally doesn't produce the final blended image, this is created by enblend or enfuse. So this feature would involve modifying the enblend-enfuse package.

Note also that both Hugin and enblend-enfuse use the vigra_impex library for reading/writing image files, so this is where the modification needs to be done. Unfortunately Hugin and enblend-enfuse include imported copies of this library in their source code, so completing this project would involve patching both versions _and_ submitting the patch with tests to the upstream vigra project.

[1]: http://www.adobe.com/devnet-apps/photoshop/fileformatashtml/
[2]: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/hugin-ptx/L-VjnUE2lQY/7OESKNEDtLcJ
[3]: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/hugin-ptx/L-VjnUE2lQY/12lvH0ulBsQJ

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The current PSB file generation tools supports a maximum of 5 input images.
My spherical panoramas typically have 81 photos (21 stacks of 3)

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