Color-photographic development process

Claim 1

In the process for the chromogenic development of an exposed color photographic material having at least three silver halide emulsion layers of differing spectral sensitivities and non-diffusible color couplers associated therewith, including a diphasic system comprised of a hydrophilic binder and hydrophobic oil former and at least one of said color couplers being hydrophobic and incorporated in the hydrophilic binder by means of the hydrophobic oil former, wherein the improvement comprises at least one cyan coupler is hydrophobic and has been incorporated in the hydrophilic binder by means of the hydrophobic oil former and at least one yellow coupler is hydrophilic and has been incorporated in the hydrophilic binder without the aid of an oil former or is hydrophobic and has been incorporated in the hydrophilic binder by means of a second oil former having increased hydrophilic character as compared to the hydrophobic oil former and the chromogenic development of the exposed material is carried out with a developer composition comprising a first hydrophobic developer compound which in its oxidized form is penetratable into said oil former in an amount to react preferentially with the hydrophobic cyan coupler, and a second hydrophilic developer compound which in its oxidized form is present mainly in the aqueous phase in an amount to react predominantly with the hydrophilic yellow coupler and in which the first and the second color developer compound, each corresponds to the following formula: ##STR4## wherein R 1 represents hydrogen or methyl, R 2 represents alkyl and R 3 represents sulfoalkyl in the second developer compound when R 3 represents alkoxy alkyl in the first developer compound, R 3 represents hydroxy alkyl in second developer compound when R 3 represents methylsulfonylaminoalkyl in said first compond, or the second hydrophilic developer compound is selected from N-butyl-N- -sulfobutyl-p-phenylenediamine and 2-amino-5-(N-isopropyl-N- -sulfobutylamino)-toluene and the first developer compound is 2-amino-5-(N-ethyl-N-methylsulfonamido-ethylamino)-toluene.