Process for the production of photographic images

Claim 1

The process of producing color photographic images consisting of metal complexed azomethine dyes by the chromogenic development of an imagewise exposed color photographic recording material containing at least one silver halide emulsion layer, comprising the steps of (a) oxidizing a color developer compound containing a primary amino group and present in uniform distribution by development of silver halide which has been imagewise exposed; (b) coupling the oxidized color developer compound with a color coupler present in uniform distribution to produce a dye image consisting of an azomethine dye; and (c) reacting the azomethine dye with a metal salt to form an azomethine dye metal complex in which the color developer compound used corresponds to the general formula ##STR8## in which X 1 and X 2 each represents a nitrogen atom or a methine group; Z' represents a group capable of metal chelate formation; and R 1 and R 2 each represents alkyl or R 1 or R 2 together represent the radical required to complete a cyclic amino group; and the azomethine dye is reacted with a metal salt of a metal of the Ist to VIth Main Group or of the Ist, IInd or IVth to VIIIth Secondary Group of the Periodic System of Elements.