Abstract: There is disclosed a photographic element which contains, in a binder on a base, a specified compound having a group that is capable of causing chemical reaction with a reactive group contained in the binder, to form a covalent bond. According to the photographic element, a color image excellent in light-fastness can be obtained.

Abstract: A method for improving light fastness of an image, which comprises releasing or forming an image forming dye or a precursor thereof corresponding or counter-corresponding to silver development and allowing an image formed by transferring said image forming dye or precursor thereof to coexist with a compound represented by general formula (I) in an image forming material ##STR1## The symbols in formula (I) are defined in the description. Also disclosed is an image forming material for use in the method.

Abstract: A pyrazolylazophenol dye exhibiting excellent spectral characteristics and having high fastness to light, heat, air or chemicals, and a color light-sensitive material containing an image forming compound comprising the dye, which releases a magenta dye exhibiting excellent spectral characteristics and having high fastness to light, heat, air or chemicals.

Abstract: A silver halide color photographic material comprising a support having thereon at least one layer containing at least one compound represented by formula (A) ##STR1## wherein the definition of R.sub.a1, R.sub.a2, R.sub.a3, Z, Y, m and n is described in the specification.

Abstract: Provided is a silver halide color photographic material containing at least one particular acylamide-type yellow coupler in at least one light-sensitive layer therein along with a particular bisphenolic image stabilizer and a particular spirocyclic or bicyclic image stabilizer. The material has excellent coloring properties and excellent color reproducibility and forms thereon color images having high fastness to light all from the high-density areas to the low-density areas.

Abstract: A silver halide color photographic material comprising a support having thereon at least one layer containing at least one compound represented by formula (A) ##STR1## wherein the definition of R.sub.a1, R.sub.a2, R.sub.a3, Z, Y, m and n is described in the specification.

Abstract: There is disclosed a silver halide color photographic material which comprises an acylacetamide yellow dye-forming coupler represented by the following formula (I) and a compound represented by the following formula (II) or (III): ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 represents a monovalent group, Q represents a group of non-metallic atoms required to form together with the C a 3- to 5-membered cyclic hydrocarbon group or a 3- to 5-membered heterocyclic group, and Y.sub.R represents a residue remaining after removing the acyl group from the acylacetamide yellow dye-forming coupler represented by formula (I), provided that R.sub.1 is not a hydrogen atom and does not bond to Q to form a ring, ##STR2## wherein R.sub.a1, R.sub.a2, R.sub.a3, R.sub.a4, and R.sub.a5 each represent a hydrogen atom, or a substituent such as an alkyl group, an alkenyl group, an aryl group, a heterocyclic group, a cyano group, a halogen atom, or a nitro group, provided that R.sub.a1, R.sub.a2, R.sub.a3, R.sub.a4, and R.sub.

Abstract: A silver halide color photographic material contains at least one hydroxypyridine compound of formulae (A), (B) and (C) in at least one layer on the support: ##STR1## The material is capable of providing a color image having an improved fastness to light.

Abstract: Disclosed is a color diffusion transfer photosensitive material containing a compound represented by a color diffusion transfer photosensitive material containing at least one compound represented by the following general formula (I): ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 each represent a hydrogen atom, an aliphatic group or an aryl group; and R.sub.3 represents an aliphatic group or a group represented by the following general formula (Ab): ##STR2## wherein R.sub.4 represents a hydrogen atom, an aliphatic group or an aryl group and R.sub.5 represents an aliphatic group, an aryl group or an amino group; and further, R.sub.1 and R.sub.2, R.sub.1 and R.sub.3, R.sub.2 and R.sub.3, or R.sub.4 and R.sub.5 may combine with each other to form a 5- to 7-membered ring, or R.sub.1, R.sub.2 and R.sub.3 may combine with one another to form a bicyclo ring; wherein the total number of carbon atoms contained in R.sub.1, R.sub.2 and R.sub.3 is not smaller than 10, at least either R.sub.1 or R.sub.

Abstract: A silver halide color photographic material is disclosed which comprises a support having thereon at least one layer containing at least one compound of the following general formula: ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 represents a hydrogen atom, an aliphatic group, --C(.dbd.O)--R.sub.7, --S(.dbd.O)2--R.sub.8 or --P(.dbd.O)(R.sub.7)(R.sub.9); R.sub.2 and R.sub.3 each represents --O--R.sub.10, --S--R.sub.10, an acylamino group or an aliphatic group; R.sub.4 represents --C(.dbd.O)--R.sub.11 or a heterocyclic group; R.sub.5 and R.sub.6 each represents a hydrogen atom or a substituent group; R.sub.7 and R.sub.9 each represents an aliphatic group, an aliphatic oxy group, an aryl group or an aryloxy group; R.sub.8 represents an aliphatic group or an aryl group; R.sub.10 represents an aliphatic group or --C(.dbd.O)--R.sub.7 ; and R.sub.11 represents a substituted hydrazino group or a heterocyclic group.

Abstract: A novel silver halide color photographic material comprising a support provided thereon at least one layer containing at least one compound represented by the following general formula (A): ##STR1## In the formula, L.sub.1 represents an alkylene or arylene group; R.sub.1 represents a substituent which can be substituted for a hydrogen of the benzene ring; m represents an integer 2 to 7; and n is 0 or an integer of 1 to 4, with the proviso that when either or both of m and n are at least two, the plurality of L.sub.1 groups and/or R.sub.1 groups may be the same or different, and with the proviso that the compound of formula (A) does not form a polymer via an R.sub.1 group. In a preferred embodiment, at least one compound represented by formula (A) is incorporated into a photographic silver halide emulsion layer.

Abstract: There is disclosed a silver halide color photographic material which comprises one yellow coupler represented by the following formula (1) or (2), and a compound represented by the following formula (3) or (4). ##STR1## wherein X.sup.1 and X.sup.2 each represent an alkyl group, an aryl group, or a heterocyclic group, X.sup.3 represents an organic residue required to form a nitrogen-containing heterocyclic group together with the >N--, Y represents an aryl group or a heterocyclic group, and Z represents a group capable of being released upon a coupling reaction with the oxidized product of a developing agent, ##STR2## wherein R.sub.a1, R.sub.a2, R.sub.a3, R.sub.a4, and R.sub.a5 each represent a hydrogen atom, or a substituent such as an alkyl group, an alkenyl group, an aryl group, a heterocyclic group, a cyano group, a halogen atom, or a nitro group, provided that R.sub.al, R.sub.a2, R.sub.a3, R.sub.a4, and R.sub.a5 are not hydrogen atoms at the same time, ##STR3## wherein R.sub.

Abstract: A silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material having at least one negative silver halide emulsion layer on a support, wherein the silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material contains at least one type of a compound which reacts with the oxidized form of a developing agent to release a development inhibitor or a precursor of a development inhibitor and/or at least one type of a compound which cleaves after reacting with the oxidized form of a color developing agent, the cleaved compound of which in turn reacts with another molecule of the oxidized form of a color developing agent to cleave a development inhibitor, and contains at least one type of a compound selected from Formulas (A) and (B) below. In Formulas (A) and (B), each of R.sub.a1 to R.sub.a5 and R.sub.b1 to R.sub.b5 represents a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group or other groups. R.sub.a1 to R.sub.a5 are not simultaneously hydrogen atoms, and one or two of R.sub.b2 to R.sub.b5 are hydroxyl groups.

Abstract: A light-sensitive material comprising a support provided thereon at least one layer containing a coupler represented by the following Formula (I): ##STR1## wherein A represents a group represented by the following Formula (a), (b) or (c): ##STR2## wherein the groups are as defined in the specification provided that at least one of the groups represented by A, B and Z has at least one of the partial structures represented by the following Formulas (P-I) to (P-V): ##STR3## wherein the substituent groups are as defined in the specification.

Abstract: A silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material having an improved color forming property, color reproducibility and image preservative performance is described. The light-sensitive material comprises a support having provided thereon at least one silver halide emulsion layer comprising (a) a cyan dye-forming coupler represented by the following formulas (I) or (II): ##STR1## wherein Za, Zb, R.sub.1, R.sub.2 and X represent substituents described herein; (b) a compound represented by the following formula (A): ##STR2## wherein R.sub.a1 -R.sub.a6 represent substituents described herein.

Abstract: A silver halide color photographic material comprises a combination of at least one yellow dye-forming coupler of the following general formula (1) with at least one discoloration inhibitor of special amide, phosphorus or hydrazine compound type to prevent the dye images, especially the yellow dye image, formed therein from discoloring or changing their colors; ##STR1## wherein X.sup.3 represents an organic residue completing a nitrogen-containing heterocyclyl group together with ##STR2## Y represents an aromatic or heterocyclic group; and Z represents a group capable of splitting off when the coupler represented by the foregoing formula reacts with the oxidation product of an aromatic primary amine color developing agent.

Abstract: Disclosed is a silver halide color photographic material comprising a support having thereon at least one silver halide emulsion layer containing a pyrrolotriazole cyan coupler and a specific lipophilic compound. The color photographic material have improved color reproducibility and preservability.

Abstract: A silver halide color photographic material comprises a support having thereon at least one silver halide emulsion layer. At least one layer of silver halide emulsion layer contains at least one pyrrolotriazole cyan coupler of formula (I) or (II) and at least one lipophilic compound selected from the group consisting of phenol compounds of formula (A), sulfur peroxide compounds of formula (B) and amide compounds of formula (C): ##STR1## wherein the substituents are as defined in the specification.

Abstract: There is disclosed a silver halide color photographic material, which comprises a compound represented by formula (I) in a photosensitive layer or a non-photosensitive layer and a yellow dye-forming coupler represented by formula (II), (III), or (IV) in a blue-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer: ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 represents an alkyl group, an alkenyl group, an aryl group, a heterocyclic group, a silyl group, an acyl group, a sulfonyl group, or an R.sub.o group; R.sub.2, R.sub.3, R.sub.4, R.sub.5, and R.sub.6 each represent a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, an alkyl group, an alkenyl group, an aryl group, a substituted amino group, an alkylthio group, an arylthio group, an R.sub.p group, an R.sub.q group, an R.sub.r group, an R.sub.s group, an R.sub.t group, or an R.sub.u group; R.sub.1a, R.sub.1b, and R.sub.1c have the same meaning as that of R.sub.1 ; R.sub.2 and R.sub.3, R.sub.3 and R.sub.4, or R.sub.5 and R.sub.

Abstract: There is disclosed a silver halide color photographic material having photosensitive layers and non-photosensitive layers adjacent to photosensitive layers on a base, which comprises a yellow dye-forming coupler selected from a group consisting of couplers represented by formulas (I), (II), and (III) and a compound represented by the following formula (IV): ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 represents a monovalent group, Q represents a group of non-metallic atoms required to form together with the C a cyclic hydrocarbon group or a heterocyclic group that has a heteroatom of N, S, O, or P, and Y.sub.R represents a residue remaining after removing the acyl group ##STR2## from the coupler represented by formula (I), provided that R.sub.1 is not a hydrogen atom and does not bond to Q to form a ring, ##STR3## wherein X.sup.1, and X.sup.2 each represent an alkyl group, an aryl group, or a heterocyclic group, X.sup.