Abstract: A silver halide color photographic material containing a yellow coupler represented by following general formula (I): ##STR1## wherein A represents a yellow coupler from which one hydrogen atom bound to a carbon atom other than at a coupling active site is removed, and R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 each represents a straight chain or branched alkyl group containing 2 to 16 carbon atoms, with the sum of the carbon atoms contained in R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 being 10 to 20 is disclosed.

Abstract: A silver halide color photographic material comprising a photographic silver halide emulsion containing a yellow dye-forming coupler represented by the following general formula (I) or (II): ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 represents an alkyl group or an aryl group; R.sub.2 represents a chlorine atom or a lower alkoxy group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms; R.sub.3 and R.sub.4, which may be the same or different, each represents an alkyl group having 1 to 22 carbon atom, a phenoxyalkyl group having 7 to 32 carbon atoms, a monocyclic aralkyl group or a phenyl group, a phenyl group which is substituted with an alkoxy group, an alkyl group, an acyl group, or an alkoxycarbonyl group; and X is selected from the group consisting of groups represented by the following general formulae (III) to (V): ##STR2## wherein Z.sub.1 represents the non-metallic atoms necessary to form together with the ##STR3## moiety a 5-membered ring or a 6-membered ring, ##STR4## wherein Z.sub.

Abstract: A multilayer color photographic material comprising a support having thereon at least a blue-sensitive silver halide emulsion containing a yellow coupler, a green-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer containing a magenta coupler, and a red-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer containing a cyan coupler, with the red-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer or a gelatin interlayer adjacent the red-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer containing a non-diffusible colored compound which, on coupling reaction with the oxidation product of a primary aromatic amino developing agent at development, can release a diffusible dye capable of being removed from the photographic layer.

Abstract: A light-sensitive silver halide photographic material comprising a support having thereon at least one hydrophilic colloid layer which contains a color-forming coupler having a nitrogen-containing residue releasable on reaction of the coupler with an oxidation product of a color developing agent and which contains a thiocarbonyl group (S.dbd.C<), a selenocarbonyl group (Se.dbd.C<) or a telluriumcarbonyl group (Te.dbd.C<), the nitrogen atom of the nitrogen-containing residue being attached to the carbon atom in the coupling position of the coupler.

Abstract: A photographic coupler represented by the following formula (I)[a] -- nhcor (i)wherein A represents a cyan color forming coupler residue having a naphthol nucleus or a phenol nucleus; the RCONH-group is a substituted in the coupling position of [A], and R represents (1) an aliphatic hydrocarbon or alicyclic hydrocarbon group which has at least one electron attractive substituent in the .alpha.-position to the carbonyl group in the RCONH- group, or (2) an aryl group, a heterocyclic group, an alkoxycarbonyl group, an aryloxycarbonyl group, a carbamoyl group, an acyl group or an amino group which may be substituted with one or more electron attractive substituents, and R as defined by (1) or (2) above is a residue of a carboxylic acid of the formula RCOOH having a pKa of about 1.

Abstract: A photographic color coupler in which a hydrogen atom at the coupling position capable of coupling with an oxidation product of an aromatic primary amine developing agent is substituted with a group represented by the following general formula: ##STR1## wherein R and R', which may be the same or different, each represents an alkyl group, an alkenyl group, an aryl group, an alkoxy group, an alkylthio group, an aryloxy group, a hydroxy group, or an amino group, and R and R' can combine each other to form a ring; and X represents an oxygen atom or a sulfur atom. These photographic color couplers are a novel class of two-equivalent color forming couplers which are suitable for use in color photography. A color photographic light-sensitive material containing the above described photographic color coupler and a method of forming a color image comprising developing an exposed photographic light-sensitive material in the presence of the above described photographic color coupler are also disclosed.

Abstract: A color photographic material comprising a support having photographic layers thereon, with at least one of the photographic layers containing a non-diffusible colored coupler which releases, on coupling reaction with the oxidation product of a primary aromatic amino developing agent at development, a diffusible dye capable of being removed from the photographic layer, the non-diffusible colored coupler being represented by general formula (I):a--o--so.sub.2 --r--b (i)wherein R represents an alkylene group having 1 to 10 carbon atoms; A represents an image forming coupler residue containing a phenol nucleus or a naphthol nucleus, and wherein the --O--SO.sub.2 --R--B group is bonded to the coupling position of the coupler residue and the group can be released upon oxidative coupling with an aromatic primary amine developing agent to form a dye; and B represents a residue containing a chromophore.

Abstract: A photographic 2-equivalent color coupler capable of coupling with the oxidation product of an aromatic primary amine developing agent in which the coupling position is substituted with an isothiocyanato group; a color photographic emulsion, material, and developer containing the above-described 2-equivalent color coupler; and a method of forming color images comprising developing an exposed silver halide photographic material in the presence of the above-described 2-equivalent color coupler.

Abstract: A color photographic light-sensitive material having a silver halide emulsion layer containing a 1-phenyl-2-pyrazol-5-one magenta color-forming coupler, in which the 1-phenyl group of the coupler is substituted (1) with a R.sub.1 OOC-group, wherein R.sub.1 represents a group having about 8 to 26 carbon atoms, or (2) with a R.sub.2 OOC-group and a R.sub.3 OOC-group, wherein R.sub.2 and R.sub.3, which may be the same or different, each represents a group having about 4 to 18 carbon atoms; and in which the 3-position of the pyrazolone is substituted with an acylamino group, an ureido group, an alkoxy group, an amino group or an anilino group. The color photographic light-sensitive material provides stable magenta dye images having good spectral absorption characteristics.

Abstract: A color photographic material having differently sensitized silver halide emulsion layers including a silver halide emulsion layer containing a 3-anilino-5-pyrazolone magenta dye-forming coupler, the coupler having a halogen atom or an alkoxyl group at the 2-position of the anilino group and an aliphatic acylamino group at the 5-position of the anilino group.