Abstract: Photographic elements and processes are described which employ compounds capable of releasing, as a function of silver halide development, a deactivatable development inhibitor to provide a combination of desirable sensitometric results. The deactivatable development inhibitor has the structure: ##STR1## wherein X is alkylene of 1 to 3 carbon atoms;R is alkyl of 1 to 4 carbon atoms; andthe sum of the carbon atoms in X and R is 5 or less.

Abstract: In a dye-forming imaging material comprising (a) a dye-forming coupler, and (b) an organic reducing agent that is capable in its oxidized form of reacting with the dye-forming coupler to form a dye, improvements are provided by a reducing agent that is a ureidoaniline silver halide developing agent free of strong electron withdrawing groups. Such an imaging material can be a photographic silver halide material. The imaging material can be a photothermographic material for producing a dye image comprising, in reactive association, (a) photographic silver halide, (b) a dye-forming coupler, and (c) an oxidation-reduction image forming combination comprising (1) an organic silver salt oxidizing agent, and (2) an organic reducing agent for the organic silver salt oxidizing agent, wherein the reducing agent is a ureidoaniline which is capable in its oxidized form of reacting with the dye-forming coupler to form a dye.