Photographic silver halide elements containing solid particle dispersions of dyes

A photographic element comprising a support having thereon a radiation-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer and a layer, which is the same as or different from the silver halide layer, comprising a hydrophilic binder, and an amount effective as a photographic filter dye of a dispersion of solid particles, said dispersion consisting essentially of a compound having the formula:

• ##STR5## wherein R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 are each independently substituted or unsubstituted alkyl or aryl, or together represent the atoms necessary to complete a substituted or unsubstituted 5- or 6-membered ring,
• R.sub.3 and R.sub.4 each independently represents H, substituted or unsubstituted alkyl, substituted or unsubstituted aryl, CO.sub.2 H, or NHSO.sub.2 R.sub.6,
• R.sub.5 is H, substituted or unsubstituted alkyl, substituted or unsubstituted aryl, substituted or unsubstituted carboxylate, or substituted or unsubstituted acyl,
• R.sub.6 and R.sub.7 are each independently substituted or unsubstituted alkyl or substituted or unsubstituted aryl,
• R.sub.8 is substituted or unsubstituted alkyl, or is part of a double bond between the ring carbon atoms to which R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 are attached, and
• n is 1 or 2,
• with the proviso that at least one of the aryl rings of the dye molecule has at least one substituent that is CO.sub.2 H or NHSO.sub.2 R.sub.6,
• the particles of said dispersion having a mean diameter of about 0.01 to 10 .mu.m.