Abstract: The invention is accomplished by forming balanced cyan, magenta, and yellow coupler and emulsion mixes. There is at least one layer in which silver halide emulsion has been sensitized to blue light or silver halide emulsion sensitive to green light. Regardless of the color sensitivity of the silver halide layer that contains silver contains a mix of cyan, magenta, and yellow dye-forming couplers. Further, in order to have a black-and-white image that has a lightness such as observed by the human eye in a scene, it is preferred that the ratios of red sensitive emulsion to green sensitive emulsion to blue sensitive emulsion in the photographic element is about 2:3:1.

Abstract: A color photographic silver halide material in which at least one silver halide emulsion consists of 85 to 99 mol-% AgCl, 1 to 10 mol-% AgI and 0 to 5 mol-% AgBr has high sensitivity (camera sensitivity) and can be developed in at most 120 s.

Abstract: A method of processing a silver halide color photographic material comprising the steps of: (1) developing a silver halide color photographic material having an alkali consumption of 3.0 mmol/m.sup.2 or less, the silver halide color photographic material comprising (a) a support; (b) at least two layers on at least one side of the support, the at least two layers containing (i) silver halide emulsions being sensitive to different wavelength bands from one another, the silver halide emulsions containing at least 90 mol % silver chloride and (ii) oil soluble couplers that form dyes on coupling with oxidized primary amine color developing agent; and (2) washing the color photographic material for about 45 seconds where water from the washing step is treated with a reverse osmosis membrane and reused in the washing step.

Abstract: The method for producing a color filter of the present invention comprises the following steps: an inorganic active layer is formed on a transparent substrate, a first color is dyed on said inorganic active layer, a resist is formed on portions of the inorganic active layer other than portions where a second color is dyed, a decoloring treatment is conducted, the second color is dyed on the exposed inorganic active layer, the resist is removed, a resist is formed on portions of the inorganic active layer other than portions where a third color is dyed, a decoloring treatment is conducted, the third color is dyed on the exposed inorganic active layer, and then the resist is removed.

Abstract: A process of producing a viewable photographic image is disclosed wherein an imagewise exposed photographic element containing at least two silver halide emulsion layers capable of recording within the same region of the spectrum and having differing threshold sensitivities produces during photographic processing spectrally distinguishable images. Separate image records are obtained from the emulsion layers, and the image record corresponding to the photographically superior image is preferentially employed in producing a viewable image.

Abstract: A silver halide color photographic photosensitive material which has been spectrally sensitized to light of wavelengths greater than of about 670 nm in which are highly sensitive to light of wavelength greater than about 670 nm and sufficiently insensitive to visible light having a shorter wavelength. The photosensitive materials comprises a silver halide photosensitive layer containing the yellow coupler, a silver halide photosensitive layer containing a magenta coupler, a silver halide photosensitive layer containing a cyan coupler and at least one non-photosensitive hydrophilic layer. Each of the photosensitive layers are spectrally sensitized such that they have different peak spectral sensitivities at light wavelengths greater than about 670 nm.

Abstract: A photographic element and process provide a magenta coupler of the formula: ##STR1## wherein (a) at least one of X1, X2 and R1 and at least one of R2 and R3 is a substituent individually selected from carbamoyl, alkoxycarbonyl, aryloxycarbonyl, sulfamoyl, alkylsulfonyl, arylsulfonyl, alkoxysulfonyl, aryloxysulfonyl, alkylsulfoxyl, arylsulfoxyl, acyloxy, cyano, nitro, and trifluoromethyl;(b) the substituents X1, X2, R1, R2 and R3 not selected from the (a) group may be selected from alkyl, alkoxy, aryloxy, acylamino, alkylthio, arylthio, sulfonamido, alkylureido, arylureido, alkoxycarbonylamino, aryloxycarbonylamino, and halogen and in the case of R3 hydrogen;(c) substituents R1 and R2 are para or meta to the carbon attached to the nitrogen atom;(d) a and b are 1 to 3;(e) Q is an alkylthio or arylthio coupling-off group.The element provides a deeper magenta hue and reduced blue absorption by the resulting magenta dye.

Abstract: A method of forming a color image in a silver halide color photosensitive material comprisingexposing the photosensitive material in a scanning exposure system for a time period shorter than about 10.sup.-4 second per picture element, and thereaftersubjecting the exposed material to development processing for a total processing time of about 90 seconds or less, inclusive of drying time,the photosensitive material comprising a support having thereon at least three silver halide emulsion layers differing in color sensitivity, at least two of which have a spectral sensitivity maximum in the wavelength region of about 670 nm or longer, wherein at least one of the silver halide emulsion layers comprises (a) at least one coupler capable of developing color upon coupling reaction with the oxidized form of an aromatic amine compound and (b) at least one compound of general formula (I) or (II): ##STR1## wherein the variables are as defined in the specification.

Abstract: A color image forming process is disclosed. The process comprises color developing an imagewise exposed silver halide color photographic material with a developer containing an aromatic primary amine color developing agent, after successive steps of desilvering, washing and/or stabilizing, and drying, wherein said color photographic material has at least one silver halide emulsion layer containing silver halide grains containing substantially no silver iodide and containing at least 95 mol % silver chloride based on the total silver halide content, said silver halide grains further containing from 1.times.10.sup.-6 to 1.times.10.sup.-3 mol of an iron compound per mol of silver and said iron compound being distributed at an iron ion concentration in the surface phase of the grain of at least 5 times that in the inside phase of the grain,wherein the total gelatin weight of said color photographic material is 7 g or less per m.sup.

Abstract: A method for forming a color image which comprises developing an imagewise exposed silver halide color photographic material with a color developer containing at least one aromatic primary amine developing agent, wherein said silver halide color photographic material comprises a reflective support, whose transmission density in the red region ranges from 0.2 to 0.9, having thereon at least one light-sensitive emulsion layer containing at least one coupler capable of forming a dye on coupling with an oxidation product of the developing agent and silver chlorobromide grains comprising at least 80 mol % of silver chloride and containing substantially no silver iodide, said support having further provided thereon a dye represented by formula (A): ##STR1## wherein R.sub.101 and R.sub.102 each represents --OR.sub.105, --COOR.sub.105, ##STR2## --COR.sub.105, --CN or --R.sub.107, wherein R.sub.105 and R.sub.

Abstract: A method of forming colored images by exposing and then developing a silver halide color photographic photosensitive material which has a blue sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, a green sensitive silver halide emulsion layer and a red sensitive silver halide emulsion layer on a support. In the method, silver halide grains which have a silver bromide containing phase of which the silver bromide content is from 10 to 60 mol % localized at the surface or within the grains, and in which from 95 to 99.5 mol % (average value) of the grains as a whole in the emulsion layer consists of silver chloride, the remainder consisting of substantially silver iodide free silver bromide, are included in at least one of the green sensitive and red sensitive silver halide emulsion layers. The material is subjected to a scanning exposure with blue light, green light and red light.

Abstract: A method for processing a silver halide color photographic material is described, comprising a support having thereon at least one of a light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer and an adjacent layer thereof containing, at least one compound represented by the formula (V), wherein said silver halide color photographic material is subjected to a color-developing-process with a color developing solution which a replenisher is replenished in an amount of 700 ml or less per m.sup.2 of the silver halide color photographic material: ##STR1## wherein A represents a coupler residue; R.sub.11 represents a divalent aliphatic group having from 1 to 4 carbon atoms; and R.sub.12 and R.sub.13 each represents an aliphatic group having from 1 to 4 carbon atoms.According to the method of processing a silver halide color photographic material, processing performance does not change in spite of the reduced replenishing amount of color developing solution.

Abstract: A method for forming an image, which comprises developing a silver halide color photographic material with a color developer containing at least one aromatic primary amine color developing agent, wherein said silver halide color photographic material comprises a silver chloride or silver chlorobromide emulsion having an average silver bromide content of not more than 10 mol % and containing substantially no iodide, with a mean grain size of an emulsion contained in the blue-sensitive layer thereof being controlled to 0.9 .mu.m or smaller, silver halide to coupler ratio in said blue-sensitive layer ranges from 2 to 5 as a molar ratio, and said color developer contains from 3.5.times.10.sup.-2 to 1.5.times.10.sup.-1 mol/l of a chloride ion and from 3.0.times.10.sup.-5 to 1.0.times.10.sup.-3 mol/l of a bromide ion.

Abstract: A method of forming a color image comprising subjecting an imagewise exposed color photoraphic material to color development at a temperature of from 30.degree. C. to 50.degree. C.

Abstract: There is disclosed a method for processing a silver halide color photographic material with a color developer containing at least one aromatic primary amine color-developing agent. In the method a silver halide color photographic material having at least one of the layers of which comprises a silver halide emulsion of high chloride containing 80 mol % or over of silver chloride, and containing at least one coupler having relative coupling rate of 0.05 or over in each color-sensitive layer is processed, after exposure to light, with a color developer containing a specified amount of chloride ions and bromide ions.

Abstract: A method for processing a silver halide light-sensitive material comprising subjecting an imagewise exposed silver halide color light-sensitive material having a silver chloride content substantially of 90 mol % or more to color developement in a color developing solution containing a hydrophilic p-phenylenediamine derivative and substantially no benzyl alcohol at a temperature of 30.degree. C. or higher for a period of 15 seconds or less and then subjecting the color developed material to bleach or bleach-fix, wherein the color development processed silver halide color light-sensitive material is introduced into a bleaching or bleach-fix bath with the amount of a color developing agent in the film of the light-sensitive material being controlled to 0.8 mmol/m.sup.2 or less, and wherein the desilvering is completed within 30 seconds.

Abstract: There is disclosed a method for processing a silver halide color photographic material with a color developer containing at least one aromatic primary amine color-developing agent. In the method a silver halide color photographic material which comprises a pyrazoloazole-type coupler and an image-dye stabilizer, and has at least one of the layers comprising a silver halide emulsion of a high silver chloride and the total coating amount of silver of 0.75 g/m.sup.2 or below is processed, after exposure to light, with a color developer containing a specified amount of chloride ions and bromide ions, to improve development treatment characteristics, desilvering ability, and stability of an image.

Abstract: A method for forming a color positive image which comprises steps of:(a) exposing a color positive type silver halide material including a support having thereon at least two silver halide emulsion layers which have different spectral sensitivity distribution from each other, to light passed through a filter having at least one absorption band where light is absorbed in a sharp width; at least one absorption peak thereof being in a wavelength of from 480 to 520 nm or from 580 to 620 nm, the optical density of the absorption peak being at least 0.8; the 3/4 value width of the absorption peak, designated as W 3/4, being at least 5 nm and the 3/4 value width of the absorption peak and the 1/4 value width of the absorption peak, designated as W 1/4, satisfying the following relation:W3/4= W1/4.ltoreq.30 nm.and(b) developing the exposed material.

Abstract: There is disclosed a method for processing a silver halide color photographic material with a color developer containing at least one aromatic primary amine color-developing agent. In the method a silver halide color photographic material having at least one of the layers of which contains a silver halide emulsion of a high chloride comprising 80 mol % or over of silver chloride and the total coating amount of silver of which is 0.75 g/m.sup.2 or below is processed, after exposure to light, with a color developer containing a specified amount of chloride ions and bromide ions. The silver halide color photographic material contains at least one of yellow couplers specified.

Abstract: There is described a process for recording a positive or negative continuous tone color copy having the same or lower contrast than a continuous tone original image, comprising the steps of:providing a photographic element comprising a support having thereon a silver halide emulsion unit capable of forming a yellow image, a silver halide emulsion unit capable of formign a cyan image, and a silver halide emulsion unit capable of forming a magnenta image, each image-forming unit having a maximum spectral sensitivity at a different wavelength of radiation, and at least one of the image-forming units having a gamma as described herein,receiving image data representing the densities of the yellow, magenta, and cyan records of the original image,modifying said image data and using it to control three exposure sources, each emitting radiation in the region of maximum spectral sensitivity for a corresponding one of the image-forming units, so that, after exposure, the recorded image density range for at least one of

Abstract: A silver halide photographic light-sensitive material having at least one light-sensitive emulsion layer containing surface latent image-type silver halide grains, coated on a reflective support, in which said at least one emulsion layer contains regular crystal grains of silver chloride or silver chlorobromide having a mean silver chloride content of 80 mol % or more on the basis of the total silver halide grains contained therein and substantially does not contain silver iodide, and in which a colloidal silver-containing layer is located adjacent to said emulsion layer, wherein at least one of said colloidal silver-containing layer, said emulsion layer and an interlayer therebetween contains at least one mercaptoazole compound. The material is, after having imagewise exposed, processed with a color developer within 90 seconds. The material forms an image with excellent sharpness and whiteness.

Abstract: A method of forming a dye image suitable for a rapid process is disclosed. The method comprises the steps of,(i) imagewise exposing a light-sensitive silver halide photographic material comprising a support and provided thereon a blue-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, a green-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer and a red-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, wherein said green-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer contains silver halide grains of which silver chloride content is not less than 90 mol %, and a magenta dye-forming coupler having a pKa value of not more than 8.80; and wherein the total amount of silver halide contained in said blue-sensitive, green-sensitive and red-sensitive layers being not more than 7.8 mg/dm.sup.2 in terms of silver;(ii) color developing said photographic material; and immediately after the color development,(iii) processing said photographic material with a solution having a bleaching capability and having a pH value of from 4.5 to 6.

Abstract: In a color print containing cyan, magenta and yellow colored dyes, the color print where the spectral absorption peak wave lengths of the respective colored dyes lie in the range represented by the following formula:1/2(.lambda.y+.lambda.c).gtoreq..lambda.m.gtoreq.1/2(.lambda.y+.lambda.c)-1 0.lambda.c=Spectral absorption peak wave length (nm) of the colored cyan dye.lambda.m=Spectral absorption peak wave length (nm) of the colored magenta dye.lambda.y=Spectral absorption peak wave length (nm) of the colored yellow dyeIn the color print, improvement of the color reproduction and improvement of the observation light source dependency, which hitherto tend to conflict with each other, can be attained at the same time.

Abstract: A method of forming a color image which comprises subjecting a silver halide color reversal photographic material to imagewise exposure and then to color reversal processing, said color reversal photographic material comprising a support having provided thereon at least one red-sensitive emulsion layer, at least one green-sensitive emulsion layer and at least one blue-sensitive emulsion layer wherein the emulsion layers have an average silver iodide content of up to 5 mol %, and wherein the peak sensitivity of the red layer is in a range between 615 and 640 nm, wherein on the shorter wavelength side, 80% of the peak is in a range between 600 and 633 nm, 50% of the peak is in a range between 585 and 625 nm and 25% of the peak is in a range between 570 and 615 nm, and wherein on the longer wavelength side, 80% of the peak is in a range between 620 and 648 nm, 50% of the peak is in a range between 625 and 655 nm and 25% of the peak is in a range between 630 and 665 nm, wherein the wavelength difference between t

Abstract: Disclosed is a color image forming system comprising an optical scanning exposure apparatus by which scanning is made on a light-sensitive silver halide color photographic material, wherein a He-Cd gas laser is used as a blue light source and a He-Ne gas laser is used as a green light source, respectively; or wherein a He-Ne gas laser is used as a green light source and at least one layer of the light-sensitive silver halide color photographic material contains silver chloride in an amount of 90 to 100 mole %.The color image forming system of this invention has a scanning exposure apparatus using inexpensive, stable, compact and long-life light sources and can obtain a color image of high image quality with good color reproducibility. Also, the system can be made inexpensive and compact as a whole.

Abstract: A method for processing a silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material comprises the steps of developing the light-sensitive material with a color developer containing an aromatic primary amine color developing agent, desilvering, washing with water and/or stabilizing the material in which at least one processing solution used in at least one step of the processing contains at least one compound selected from the group consisting of sulfinic acids and salts and precursors thereof. This method makes it possible to effectively prevent the formation of stains due to not only the components of the light-sensitive material per se but also those attributable to the processing solutions, during processing or storage with time, and to enhance the stability of processing solutions.

Abstract: A method for processing a silver halide color photosensitive material is disclosed.The process step comprises developing a color photographic light-sensitive material composed of a support having thereon at least one light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer containing a silver halide containing at least 80 mol % silver chloride; at least one emulsion layer thereof containing a dispersion of a mixture of (i) at least one oil-soluble non-diffusible cyan coupler capable of forming a substantially non-diffusible cyan dye by coupling with the oxidized form of a developing agent, and (ii) a water-insoluble polymer;in a color developer solution comprising a primary amine color developing agent, and having a chloride ion concentration of from 3.5.times.10.sup.-2 to 1.5.times.10.sup.-1 mol/l, and a bromide ion concentration of from 3.0.times.10.sup.-5 to 1.0.times.10.sup.-3 mol/l.

Abstract: A combination in a color photographic silver halide element and process of at least one red-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer comprising a particular naphtholic cyan dye-forming coupler with at least one green-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer comprising a particular pyrazolo[3,2-c]-s-triazole coupler and at least one blue-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer comprising a particular pivaloylacetanilide yellow dye-forming coupler enables improved color saturation of dye images, better relation of speed to grain characteristics and reduced unwanted spectral absorption of dye images formed. This combination is particularly useful in color photographic silver halide materials and processes for forming improved reversal dye images.

Abstract: In a process for the processing of color photographic silver halide material which has been exposed to form an image by development, bleachfixing, washing or stabilization and drying, the aqueous developer solution being free from benzyl alcohol, the pH value of the bleachfixing solution, which contains an iron(III) complex salt, being below 7 and the bleachfixing solution containing a compound corresponding to general formula (I) ##STR1## in which Z represents the atoms required to complete an optionally further substituted heterocyclic ring andR.sup.1 represents hydrogen or an alkali atom,and a coupler containing an activated methylene group, in which a hydrogen atom is replaced by alkyl, cycloalkyl, aryl or aralkyl and reacts with the oxidation product of the color developer to form colorless reaction products, bleaching can be carried out free from residual silver with a low regeneration level of the bleachfixing bath without any water-insoluble precipitates being formed.

Abstract: A process for the rapid development of imagewise exposed silver halide recording materials which contain on a layer support at least three light sensitive silver halide emulsion layers of different spectral sensitivity, with which a cyan coupler, a magenta coupler and a yellow coupler are in each case spectrally associated, comprising the following treatment steps:1. treatment of the photographic material with a solution I of a color developing agent or a salt thereof at pH 1 to 8 over a period of 1 to 10 seconds,2. treatment of the photographic material impregnated with the developing agent with an alkali-containing solution II at pH 10 to 14 over a period of 1 to 10 seconds.produces maximum color densities of the kind otherwise only obtained by conventional development over a period of 45 seconds.

Abstract: A silver halide photographic material comprising a support having thereon at least one hydrophilic colloid layer containing at least one high boiling point organic solvent and at least one substantially water-insoluble photographically useful reagent both dispersed therein, wherein at least one of the high boiling point organic solvents is a compound represented by formula (I):(ArCOO).sub.n --L (I)(the symbols of which are described herein).By incorporation of a compound of formula (I), reductive fading of cyan dyes formed in the material due to heat, moisture is minimized.A method of processing the silver halide photographic material as imagewise exposed with a color developer containing substantially no benzyl alcohol is also disclosed.

Abstract: A color image-forming process of developing a color photographic paper having on a support silver halide emulsion layer(s) containing a monodispersed silver chlorobromide emulsion having a deviation coefficient of not more than 20% and a color coupler, said emulsion being spectrally sensitized by at least one of the compounds represented by general formulae (I), (II), (III) and (IV) defined in this invention, using a color developer containing substantially no benzyl alcohol for a period of time of not more than 2 minutes and 30 seconds.In processing the aforesaid color photographic paper, even when the color paper is procesed using a color developer containing no benzyl alcohol, which caused pollution problems, in a short processing time of not more than 2 minutes and 30 seconds, stable color images having less formation of fog and high color density are obtained.

Abstract: A color image-forming process is disclosed, which comprises imagewise exposing a silver halide color photographic material comprising a support having thereon at least one light-sensitive layer containing at least one coupler capable of forming a dye upon a reaction with an oxidation product of an aromatic primary amine color developing agent and a silver halide emulsion spectrally sensitized with a dye represented by the following general formula (I), (II) or (II), substantially excluding silver iodide, and containing about 80 mol % or more silver chloride, processing the exposed photographic material with a color developer, then processing it with a solution having a pH of not more than about 6.5 and having a bleaching ability within about 75 seconds: ##STR1## wherein the symbols have the meanings described hereinafter. A silver halide color photographic material to be processed in accordance with the method described above is also disclosed.

Abstract: A method of forming a color image wherein a color print original is printed on a printing color photographic material and the thus printed material is then subjected to color development to give a color print, which is characterized in that a band stop filter having a half width of the spectral transmittance curve of said filter in a wavelength range outside the region of the maximum spectral sensitivity wavelength (.lambda.max).+-.20 nm of at least one light-sensitive layer of the printing color photographic material is provided between the light source to be used in said printing step and the light-sensitive layer of said printing color photographic material, and in that a compound of a general formula (I):(C.sub.p).X (I)wherein C.sub.

Abstract: A method for forming a color image is disclosed, which comprises imagewise exposing a multi-layer silver halide color photographic material comprising a reflective support having provided thereon at least three silver halide emulsion layers different in color sensitivity, each of which separately contains at least one coupler selected from a specific combination of cyan, magenta, and yellow couplers, and processing the exposed material with a color developing solution containing substantially no benzyl alcohol for a period of not more than 2 minutes and a half. A color image excellent in color reproducibility and preservability can be obtained rapidly without using benzyl alcohol.

Abstract: A silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material which contains a high speed reactive type coupler having a relative coupling speed of 0.35 to 1.0 and a compound represented by the following general formula (I): ##STR1## wherein R represents a hydrogen atom, a substituted or unsubstituted aliphatic group, a substituted or unsubstituted aromatic group, or a substituted or unsubstituted heterocyclic group.The silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material provides color images having greatly improved graininess in both high density areas and low density areas, without adversely affecting sensitivity.

Abstract: A processing solution for developing a silver halide color photographic material. The material has a color developing agent and at least one compound selected from the group consisting of an aminocarboxylic acid and an aminophosphonic acid. The processing development solution has a surface tension ranging from 20 to 60 dynes/cm.

Abstract: A method for forming a color image is disclosed, comprising imagewise exposing a color photographic material containing a reflective support having thereon at least one blue-sensitive silver halide emulsion having substantially no iodide content and associated with a yellow dye-forming coupler, at least one green-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer having substantially no iodide content and associated with a magenta dye-forming coupler and at least one red-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer having substantially no iodide content and associated with a cyan dye forming coupler wherein at least one said blue-sensitive emulsion layer, at least one said green-sensitive emulsion layer and at least one said red-sensitive emulsion layer each contains said silver halide in a ratio of from 1/1 to 4.5/1 moles with respect to the color forming coupler and said photographic material has a total coverage of silver halide contained in all of said silver halide emulsion layers being controlled to 0.78 g/m.sup.

Abstract: A silver halide photographic material is disclosed. The material has at least one silver halide emulsion layer on a support, said silver halide emulsion layer containing a coupler which forms a mobile dye by coupling reaction with the oxidized product of a color developing agent, and said silver halide emulsion layer having in association therewith a non-light sensitive layer containing substantially non-light sensitive fine silver halide grains.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an image forming method and apparatus in which a photographic material is subjected to an exposure by scanning with laser beam being of blue, green and red wavelengths as an exposure means, the photographic material used in the above scanning exposure process is a silver halide photographic material comprising blue, green and red sensitive silver halide emulsion layers, the silver halide of at least one of which emulsion layers is silver chloroiodobromide whose silver bromide content is from zero to 65 mol %.

Abstract: A method of forming a color image which comprises processing, after imagewise exposure, with a color developing solution which contains not more than 0.

Abstract: A method of processing of a silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material is disclosed. The color photographic material to be processed comprises a support and photographic component layers including a blue-sensitive, green-sensitive and red-sensitive silver halide emulsion layers, and at least one of the photographic emulsion layers comprises a silver halide containing 0.5 to 25 mol % of silver iodide. The total thickness of the photographic component layers is from 8 to 25 .mu.m and the swelling rate T1/2 of this layers is not more than 25 sec. At least one of the emulsion layers contains a specific coupler. The color photographic material is processed with a bleach-fixing solution containing an organic acid ferric complex after a developing treatment.The processing by this invention provides high sensitivity and minimized cyan dye loss of the photographic material.

Abstract: A quick desilvering process of silver halide color photographic materials is provided, wherein the total amount of coated silver is 5.2 g/m.sup.2 or less, an average iodide content in the whole light-sensitive silver halide grains is 5.5 mol % or less; and a 2-equivalent magenta polymer coupler is included as a magenta coupler, and bleach-fixing treatment, or bleaching treatment at a pH of 5.5 or less, or desilvering treatment in the presence of a specific desilvering accelerator is carried out. Silver halide color photographic materials which permit the quick desilvering are also provided. These contain a specific desilvering accelerator.

Abstract: A silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material comprising a support having thereon at least one silver halide emulsion layer, the color photographic light-sensitive material containing a compound capable of releasing a group represented by the general formula (I) described below upon the reaction with the oxidation product of a developing agent: ##STR1## wherein W and Z each represents an oxygen atom, a sulfur atom or a group of ##STR2## X.sub.1, X.sub.2, X.sub.3, X.sub.4 and X.sub.5 each represents a hydrogen atom or an organic residue; PUG represents a photographically useful group; n represents 1 or 2; any two of X.sub.1, X.sub.2, X.sub.3, X.sub.4, X.sub.5 and PUG each represents a divalent group and may be connected to each other to form a cyclic structure; and when n represents 2, two Z's, two X.sub.3 's and two X.sub.4 's may be the same or different.

Abstract: A silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material comprising a support having thereon a silver halide emulsion layer and a compound represented by the following general formula (I): ##STR1## wherein COUP represents a coupler residue capable of being subjected to a coupling reaction with an oxidation product of an aromatic primary amine developing agent; TIME represents a timing group which is released upon the coupling reaction and subsequently releases ##STR2## Z represents a monocyclic or condensed heterocyclic ring consisting of a nitrogen atom and a carbon atom; L represents a divalent linking group; R.sup.1 represents a hydrogen atom or an alkoxycarbonyl group; R.sup.2 represents a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, an aryl group, a heterocyclic group, an acyl group, a sulfonyl group, an alkoxycarbonyl group, a carbamoyl group, a sulfamoyl group, a thioacyl group or a thiocarbamoyl group; R.sup.3 represents a hydrogen atom; R.sup.2 and R.sup.

Abstract: A process for forming color images, and a silver halide color photographic material for use in the process, are described, said process comprising processing with a developer containing hydroxylamine a silver halide color photographic material comprising a support having thereon at least one red-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, at least one green-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, and at least one blue-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, said blue-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer being disposed at a more upper portion than other color-sensitive silver halide emulsion layers, and said color photographic material further comprising (1) a light-insensitive layer containing at least one of a yellow colored magenta-dye-forming coupler and a yellow non-diffusible organic dye between the lowermost blue-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer and the uppermost layer of the other color-sensitive silver halide emulsion layers, and (2) a light-insensitive silver halide emulsion in any layer above sa

Abstract: A silver halide color reversal photographic material comprising a backing layer containing both gelatin of an isoelectric point of 5.5 or more and a cationic polymer is disclosed. By utilizing the particular backing layer the color reversal photographic material has increased retouchability.

Abstract: Method of improving the color balance of a multicolor reversal image obtained in a photographic material itself or obtained by a diffusion transfer reversal process in an image receiving material is provided, wherein said method comprises, as illustrated in FIG. 3, the steps of:(1) providing a photographic silver halide material (4) capable of yielding in said material or in an image receiving layer a multicolor reversal image of average gradient of at least 1.8;(2) image-wise exposing said photographic material to or through a multi-color continuous tone original (2) while keeping in the optical path between the original and the photographic material a light-distribution means (3) dividing the light in line-like or dot-like portions over the exposed area of the photographic material,(3) developing and reversal-processing said photographic material, e.g. by dye diffusion transfer-processing, hereby producing a reversal image with average gradient of at most 1.50 and reduced color point spreading.

Abstract: A method of forming a photographic azo or azamethine dye image in an exposed photographic silver halide element, the method of comprising the steps of (a) developing the imagewise exposed material to form an imagewise pattern of oxidized color developing agent, (b) reacting the oxidized color developing agent with a color coupler to produce an image dye, characterized in that at least one of the color developing agent and the color coupler possesses a metal chelating site such that the image dye is capable of forming a bi-, tri- or higher-dentate metallized dye, and (c) contacting the image dye with polyvalent metal ions to form a metallized dye image. Specified color developing agents include heterocyclic substituted hydrazides and specified couplers include benziso-oxazolones and 2H-pyrazolo-[3,4-b]pyridines in addition to more conventional compounds.

Abstract: A silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material improved in graininess, comprising a support having thereon a red-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, a green-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer and a blue-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, wherein at least one of the red-sensitive emulsion layer and the green-sensitive emulsion layer has the three-layered structure, in which the low speed silver halide emulsion layer, medium speed silver halide emulsion layer and high speed silver halide emulsion layer are coated on the support in this order; and the coating amount of silver in the layer increases in the order of the medium speed layer, low speed layer and high speed layer.