Stabilization of organic substrate materials including photographic dye images against the action of light

A color photographic material comprising at least one layer containing a photographic dye image, said dye of said dye image having an absorption maximum in the wavelength range between about 300 nm and about 800 nm, wherein said layer or an adjacent layer thereto contains at least one complex compound represented by the formula (I) or the formula (II) ##STR15## wherein N is a metal selected from the group consisting of Cu, Co, Ni, Pd and Pt;

• R.sup.1, R.sup.2, R.sup.3 and R.sup.4 each represent a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, a cyano group, an alkyl group, an aryl group, a cycloalkyl group, or a heterocyclic group attached to the carbon atom of the benzene ring directly or through a divalent connecting group;
• or, R.sup.1 and R.sup.2, R.sup.2 and R.sup.3, or R.sup.3 and R.sup.4 can be combined to represent non-metallic atoms necessary to complete a 6-membered ring;
• and R.sup.5 and R.sup.6, which may be the same or different, each represent a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, an aryl group, an acyl group, an alkoxycarbonyl group, an aryloxycarbonyl group, an alkylsulfonyl group or an arylsulfonyl group, stabilizing said dye to the action of light.