Abstract: A process for forming a photographic image comprising imagewise exposing a silver halide photographic light-sensitive material to light and processing the silver halide photographic light-sensitive material with an alkaline processing solution, wherein the improvement comprises the silver halide photographic light-sensitive material contains a compound represented by formula (I) ##STR1## wherein R represents an alkyl group having from 6 to 22 carbon atoms, a substituted alkyl group having from 6 to 22 carbon atoms, an aryl group having from 6 to 22 carbon atoms, a substituted aryl group having from 6 to 22 carbon atoms, an alkenyl group having from 6 to 22 carbon atoms, a substituted alkenyl group having from 6 to 22 carbon atoms or an aralkyl group having from 7 to 22 carbon atoms; X represents an alkyl group having from 1 to 4 carbon atoms, an alkoxy group having from 1 to 6 carbon atoms, or a halogen atom; and n represents an integer from 1 to 3.

Abstract: Photographic silver halide material which comprises at least one silver halide emulsion layer coated on a support, there being present in the silver halide emulsion layer(s), or in a layer in operative contact with at least one silver halide emulsion layer, a compound of the formula ##STR1## wherein W is hydrogen, alkyl, --NHCOR.sup.1 or --COR.sup.1, wherein R.sup.1 is alkyl or alkenyl, cycloalkyl, aralkyl, aryl, phenoxymethylamino or halogen; X is a substituent in the coupling position and is a leaving group selected from hydrogen, chlorine, bromine, --SR.sup.11 wherein R.sup.11 is alkyl, aryl or a heterocyclic group, or X is a nitrogen-containing heterocyclic residue attached at a ring nitrogen atom; Y is a group having the formula ##STR2## wherein Q is selected from the residues: (a) --COOR.sup.4 or --CONR.sup.4 R.sup.5 where R.sup.4 is hydrogen, alkyl optionally interrupted by 1 or more oxygen atoms, alkenyl, cycloalkyl, aralkyl or aryl, and R.sup.5 is hydrogen or alkyl or R.sup.4 and R.sup.

Abstract: A method of forming a cyan dye image by development of an exposed silver halide photographic material with a developer containing a cyan coupler having one of the following formulae: ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 is a hydrogen atom or alkyl having 1 to 20 carbon atoms; R.sub.2 is alkyl, aryl, or a hetero ring; R.sub.3 is hydrogen or halogen; X is arylene or alkylene; Z is a coupling off group; n is 1 or 2; ##STR2## wherein Cy, Cy' and Cy" are individually a cyclic aliphatic, aromatic or heterocyclic group; R, R' and R" are individually alkyl; A is hydrogen or a monovalent organic group, Y is a divalent organic group, K, l, m, m' m" are individually 0 or 1, provided that when m=0, Cy is a cyclic aliphatic or heterocyclic group.

Abstract: A method of forming a cyan dye image by development of an exposed silver halide photographic material with a developer containing a 2,5-diacylaminophenol cyan coupler containing a substituted alkylsulfonylamino terminal moiety or a substituted alkylaminosulfonyl terminal moiety in the 2- or 5- position.

Abstract: A compound represented by the structural formula: ##STR1## is representative of the compounds disclosed which are utilized within the silver halide layer of photographic light-sensitive materials. The compounds aid in preventing the fading of dye images which are formed by development of color photographic light-sensitive materials as well as aiding in the prevention of discoloration of non-developed areas. The effects of the compounds are particularly noticeable when utilized in combination with magenta couplers or cyan couplers, and other antifading agents in an amount of 2 to 150% by weight based on the weight of the couplers.

Abstract: A photographic development inhibitor releasing compound of the formula (I): ##STR1## wherein X is an indazole residue which may be substituted and which is bonded to the benzene nucleus through the nitrogen atom at the 1-position or 2-position thereof; R.sup.1, R.sup.2 and R.sup.3, which may be the same or different, are each hydrogen, an alkyl group, an aryl group, an alkylthio group, an arylthio group, a halogen atom, a hydroxy group, an alkoxy group, an aryloxy group, an acyl group, an alkoxycarbonyl group, an amido group, a sulfonamido group, a carbamoyl group, a sulfamoyl group, a heterocyclic residue or any of the groups described above for X; further R.sup.2 and R.sup.3 may combine with each other to form a ring; and R.sup.4 and R.sup.5, which may be the same or different, are each hydrogen or a group capable of being hydrolyzed in the presence of an alkali. The compound is very active and rapidly releases a development inhibiting agent upon oxidation.

Abstract: Cyan-forming phenol type color couplers comprising in the 2-position of the phenol a benzamido group carrying on the benzene nucleus of the benzamido group at least one --Q--Rf group wherein Q is --O--, --S--, or --SO.sub.2 --, and Rf is a short-chain fluorine-containing group derived from hexafluoropropylene or trifluorochloroethylene.These cyan-forming color couplers can be incorporated in (a) red-sensitized silver halide emulsion layer(s) of a photographic multilayer color element or in a non-light-sensitive colloid layer in water-permeable relationship with the red-sensitized emulsion layer(s).

Abstract: Cyan-forming color couplers according to the formula: ##STR1## wherein Z is hydrogen in the case of 4-equivalent couplers or a substituent that splits off upon color development, thus conferring a 2-equivalent character to the color coupler, and Y is a ballasting group. These cyan-forming color couplers can be incorporated in (a) red-sensitized silver halide emulsion layer(s) of a photographic multilayer color element or in a non-light-sensitive colloid layer in water-permeable relationship with the red-sensitized emulsion layer(s).

Abstract: Novel phenolic cyan dye-forming couplers contain in the 2-position a p-cyanophenylureido group. These couplers are useful in photographic emulsions, elements and processes.

Abstract: Color photographic light sensitive materials are disclosed, comprising a cyan dye forming coupler represented by formula (I) ##STR1## wherein A represents a cyan coupler residue, but the --NHCO group does not bond to A in the active position of A, R.sup.1 represents a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl group or a substituted or unsubstituted aryl group, R.sup.2 represents hydrogen or a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl group, and the various positions of the phenyl group of the formula (I) may be substituted with from 1 to 3 substituents selected from the group consisting of hydrogen, a halogen atom, an alkyl group or an alkoxy group.

Abstract: A color photographic light-sensitive material is described containing a cyan dye forming coupler represented by formula (I) ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 represents a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl group or a substituted or unsubstituted aryl group; R.sup.2 and R.sup.3 each represents hydrogen, a halogen atom, an alkyl group, an aryl group, an alkoxy group, an alkoxycarbonyl group, an alkylcarbonyl group, an arylcarbonyl group, an alkylcarbamoyl group, an arylcarbamoyl group wherein said groups may be substituted or unsubstituted, or a nitryl group; and X represents hydrogen or a coupling-off group; also a double bond may be formed between the carbon atom at the 3-position and the carbon atoms at the 4-position.The color photographic light-sensitive material provides color images having excellent fastness to light and heat.

Abstract: Color photographic material is described in which a yellowish image is formed which can be used to print black and white prints. Also present in the layer is a small amount of a more reactive coupler which produces a colored image to which black and white paper is not sensitive. This more reactive coupler reduces the fog in the highlight areas.Most preferably small amounts of other couplers are present which result in a green or brown image which makes it easier for the operator to focus the image.

Abstract: Novel dye-forming couplers have the structure: ##STR1## wherein: Z represents the atoms to complete, with the attached oxygen atom, the same or different 5-pyrazolone dye-forming coupler moiety, phenol dye-forming coupler moiety or naphthol dye-forming coupler moiety, the * in the ring completed by Z representing the coupling position;R is hydrogen or a coupling-off group;Bl is a blocking group removable, during development, from the coupler moiety completed by Z to which it is directly attached; andn is an integer of 2 to 4.

Abstract: A silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material which contains at least one compound represented by the following general formula (I): ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1, R.sup.2, R.sup.3 and R.sup.4, which may be the same or different, each represents a hydrogen atom or an aliphatic group; R.sup.5 represents an aliphatic group or an aromatic group, R.sup.6 and R.sup.7, which may be the same or different, each represents a cyano group, a --COR.sup.8 group, a --COOR.sup.8 group or a --SO.sub.2 R.sup.9 group; and R.sup.8 represents an aliphatic group and R.sup.9 represents an aliphatic group or an aromatic group. The silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material has improved color reproduction which is not affected by differences in the ultraviolet light absorption characteristics of the camera lens.

Abstract: A method for forming a cyan dye image by developing an exposed silver halide photographic material with a developer containing a color developing agent in the presence of a cyan coupler, wherein the coupler is a 2,5-diacylaminophenol in which each acylamino group has a substituent containing an oxycarbonyl, sulfonyloxy, oxysulfonyl, arylsulfonamide or arylsulfamoyl group or other organic group containing a sulfone group.

Abstract: A method for forming a cyan dye image by development of an exposed silver halide photographic material with a developer containing a cyan coupler of the following formula: ##STR1## in which R represents hydrogen atom or an alkyl group having a carbon number of one to twenty; R.sub.1 represents an alkylsulfonamide or alkylsulfamoyl group; R.sub.2 represents an alkyl, aryl group or a 5 or 6-membered heterocyclic group containing a nitrogen, oxygen or sulfur atom; R.sub.3 represents a hydrogen or halogen atom; X represents an alkylene, metaphenylene or orthophenylene group; Z represents a hydrogen atom or a split-off radical; and n has an integral value of one or two.

Abstract: A method is described for forming a black-and-white photographic image consisting essentially of a silver image and a coextensive dye image, in which the maximum density of the image and the fastness of the image to light are greatly improved, by processing a silver halide photosensitive material which contains silver halide in a reduced amount (compared with conventional materials) that has been imagewise exposed to light in the presence of a naphthalene compound containing at least two hydroxy substituents groups on the nucleus thereof and a p-phenylenediamine type developing agent or a precursor of the p-phenylenediamine compound.

Abstract: A silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material comprising a paper support, at least one color image-forming emulsion layer, and an oxygen-impermeable layer having an oxygen permeability of not more than 2.0 ml/m.sup.2 .multidot.hr.multidot.atm, said color image-forming layer and oxygen-impermeable layer being provided on the same side of the paper support.

Abstract: A multilayer color photographic material with improved color reproduction comprising a support having thereon at least two photosensitive silver halide emulsion layers which provide color images having different colors from each other, the multilayer color photographic material containing at least one interlayer color correction coupler as defined hereinafter.

Abstract: A process for forming photographic images comprising a silver image and a dye image, which comprises development processing an imagewise exposed silver halide photographic light-sensitive material in the presence of a carboxy- and sulfo-free naphthalene compound wherein at least two hydrogen atoms in the naphthalene nucleus are substituted at specific positions thereof as indicated in formula (I) below, and a 3-pyrazolidone compound.

Abstract: A color photographic color coupler-containing light-sensitive material containing, in a photographic layer, at least one compound represented by the following general formula (I): ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 represents a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, a heterocyclic group, a dialkylsilyl group, a trialkylsilyl group, an alkanesulfonyl group, an arylsulfonyl group, an aralknesulfonyl group or an -X-Y group in which X represents a carbonyl group, and Y represents an alkyl group, an aryl group, an aralkyl group, an alkoxy group, an aryloxy group, an aralkoxy group, an alkylamino group, a dialkylamino group, an arylamino or diarylamino group, an alkoxycarbonyl group, an aryloxycarbonyl group, an aralkoxycarbonyl group or an acyl group; R.sub.2, R.sub.3 and R.sub.

Abstract: A photographic silver halide light-sensitive emulsion containing a cyan color forming colorless coupler having at the coupling position at which the coupler reacts with the oxidation product of an aromatic primary amine developing agent at least one alkoxy group having a sulfonyl group as a substituent and represented by the following general formula (I):--O--R--SO.sub.2 --R.sub.1 (I)wherein R represents a saturated or unsaturated divalent aliphatic group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms which may be straight or branched chain and may be substituted (except those having an aryl group as a substituent on the carbon atom adjacent the oxygen atom bonded to the coupling position); and R.sub.1 represents an aliphatic group, an aromatic group or a heterocyclic group; and wherein R and R.sub.1 can combine directly or through a bonding group to form a ring and an image-forming process.

Abstract: A method of stabilizing organic substrate materials against the action of light is disclosed wherein at least one compound represented by the following general formula (I) is made to coexist with the organic substrate material ##STR1## wherein M represents a Cu, Co, Ni, Pd or Pt atom, R.sup.1 represents an alkyl or an aryl group, R.sup.2, R.sup.3, R.sup.4 and R.sup.5 may be the same or different and each represents a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, an alkyl group or an aryl group. Alternatively, R.sup.2 and R.sup.3, R.sup.3 and R.sup.4 or R.sup.4 and R.sup.5 may combine together to form a 6-membered ring. A photographic material containing the above compound is also disclosed.

Abstract: The stability of a cyan dye image formed by phenol and naphthol couplers is improved with respect to "dark fading" by incorporating in the silver halide color photographic material in which the dye image is formed at least one 2-phenyl benzotriazole compound having in the 2'-position an --OR group wherein R is an organic residue.

Abstract: Organic substrates, especially photographic dyes, are stabilized against light by using a Cu, Co, Ni, Pd or Pt complex of formula (I). ##STR1## wherein M represents Cu, Co, Ni, Pd or Pt; R.sub.1 and R.sub.6 may be the same or different and represent a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group, an aryl group, an acyl group, an alkoxycarbonyl group, an aryloxycarbonyl group, an alkylsulfonyl group or an arylsulfonyl group; and R.sub.2, R.sub.3, R.sub.4 and R.sub.5 which may be the same or different represent a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, a cyano group, or an alkyl group, an aryl group, a cycloalkyl group or a heterocyclic group bonded to a carbon atom on a benzene ring directly or through a divalent linking group, or R.sub.2 and R.sub.3, R.sub.3 and R.sub.4 or R.sub.4 and R.sub.5 respectively may combine and represent the non-metallic atomic groupings required to form a 6-membered ring.

Abstract: A silver halide color photographic material comprising a coupler represented by the following general formula: ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1, R.sub.2, R.sub.3 and R.sub.4 individually represent a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl, alkenyl, aryl, cycloalkyl group, or,-A-X).sub.n ].sub.m Cp in which Cp represents a cyan coupler, magenta coupler or yellow coupler, A represents a substituted or unsubstituted divalent aliphatic group, X represents a divalent group, and m and n individually represent a value of 0 or 1, provided that at least one of R.sub.1, R.sub.2, R.sub.3 and R.sub.4 is -A-X).sub.n ].sub.m Cp.

Abstract: The stability of organic substrate materials having an absorption peak between 300 and 800 nm in wavelength can be improved by the presence of a compound represented by the following general formula (I), ##STR1## wherein M represents Cu, Co, Ni, Pd or Pt atom; Cat represents a divalent cation or two monovalent cations; X represents S or a ##STR2## group where R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 each represents a CN, a COR.sup.3, a COOR.sup.4, a CONR.sup.5 R.sup.6, or a SO.sub.2 R.sup.7 group and R.sup.1 may combine with R.sup.2 to form a 5- or 6-membered ring; R.sup.3, R.sup.4 and R.sup.7 each represents an alkyl or an aryl group, R.sup.5 and R.sup.6 each represents a hydrogen atom, an alkyl or an aryl group, and n represents an integer of 1 or 2.

Abstract: A silver halide photographic light-sensitive material and a process for preparing the same are disclosed wherein an oil-soluble photographic additive and, in particular, a cyan coupler is dissolved in an epoxy compound of the formula (I): ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1, R.sub.2, R.sub.3 and R.sub.4 each represents an alkyl group or substituted alkyl group containing 1 to 40 carbon atoms, an alkoxycarbonyl group or substituted alkoxycarbonyl group containing 1 to 40 carbon atoms, or a hydrogen atom, provided that R.sub.1, R.sub.2, R.sub.3 and R.sub.4 do not represent hydrogen atoms at the same time and that the sum of the number of carbon atoms of R.sub.1, R.sub.2, R.sub.3 and R.sub.4 is 8 to 60, and R.sub.1, R.sub.2, R.sub.3 and R.sub.4 may be the same or different and may combine to form a ring; or in an epoxy compound formed by linking two compounds of said formula (I) which may be the same or different through any of R.sub.1 to R.sub.4 or the ring formed by R.sub.1 to R.sub.4.

Abstract: The stability of organic substrates having an absorption maximum between 300 and 800 nm in wavelength can be improved by at least one compound represented by the formula (I); ##STR1## wherein M represents Cu, Co, Ni, Pd or Pt; X.sub.1, X.sub.2, X.sub.3 and X.sub.4 eachrepresents an oxygen or sulfur atom, R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 each represents an alkyl, an aryl, a cycloalkyl, an oxocyclalkyl or a heterocyclic group attached to the carbon atom on the chelate ring directly or through a divalent connecting group, R.sub.3 represents a hydrogen atom, an alkyl, an aryl, a cycloalkyl, an oxocycloalkyl or a heterocyclic group attached to the carbon atom on the chelate ring directly or through a connecting group whereby R.sub.1, R.sub.2 and R.sub.3 may be the same or different and R.sub.1 and R.sub.3 or R.sub.2 and R.sub.3 may combine with each other to form a 5-, 6- or 7- member ring structure.

Abstract: Fluorinated 1-hydroxy-2-naphthamide couplers which are N-substituted with a lower alkylphenoxybutyl ballasting group are disclosed as well as compositions and photographic elements containing these couplers in coupler solvent particles. The coupler solvent particles are comprised of a combination of a coupler solvent and the coupler capable of permitting the formation of a microcrystalline dye. Surprisingly these microcrystalline dyes exhibit a broadened absorption characteristic in the 750 to 850 nm region of the spectrum. Dye images having such absorption characteristics are particularly suited to forming integral infrared absorbing sound tracks in photographic elements, such as motion picture projection films.

Abstract: Hydroquinone esters are incorporated in or behind a timing layer with a high activation energy to release a competing developer upon contact with a processing composition.

Abstract: A light-sensitive silver halide photographic material comprising a m-aminophenol type coupler of the structure particularly defined therein is disclosed, which can successfully yield an excellent image stable against oxidation.

Abstract: Novel phenolic cyan dye-forming couplers contain in the 2-position a p-cyanophenylureido group. These couplers are useful in photographic emulsions, elements and processes.