Silver halide color photosensitive materials

A process for preparing color images comprising processing an imagewise exposed photographic material with a color developer which is essentially sulfite ion free, the photographic material comprising at least three silver halide photosensitive layers including a silver halide photosensitive layer comprising a silver halide emulsion containing a yellow coupler, a silver halide photosensitive layer comprising a silver halide emulsion containing a magenta coupler and a silver halide photosensitive layer comprising a silver halide emulsion containing a cyan coupler, and at least one non-photosensitive hydrophilic layer,

• wherein the silver halide emulsion in at least one of the photosensitive layers contains silver chloride and/or silver chlorobromide having an average silver chloride content of at least 90 mol % and is essentially silver iodide free,
• and further wherein the photosensitive layers are each spectrally sensitized such that they have different peak spectral sensitivities at wavelengths greater than about 670 nm,
• the photosensitive material further comprises at least one first dye which comprises at least one compound according to the following formula:
• ##STR63## wherein Q.sub.1 and Q.sub.2 each represent a group of atoms which form a pyrazolone, barbituric acid, thiobarbituric acid, isooxazolone, 3-oxythionaphthene, 1,3-indandione, 3,5-pyrazolidindione, pyridone, pyridine or dioxopyrazolo[3,4-b]pyridine ring structure,
• wherein the pyrazolone rings completed by Q.sub.1 or Q.sub.2 are pyrazolone rings which have a phenyl, benzyl, or alkyl group which has a sulfonic acid group as a substituent group in the 1- position,
• Ar represents a phenyl group or a naphthyl group, which may be substituted,
• M represents a hydrogen atom, an alkali metal atom, an ammonium ion which may be substituted, or a phosphonium ion which may be substituted,
• R represents alkyl, benzyl or phenyl, and it may be substituted,
• L.sub.1 -L.sub.5 represent methane groups which may be substituted,
• n.sub.1 and n.sub.2 individually represent 0 or 1 and which has an absorption peak wavelength in the region of wavelength longer than 400 nm but at least 20 nm shorter that the shortest of the wavelengths which form the peak values of the spectral sensitivities of the photosensitive layers and which is included in at least one photosensitive layer and/or at least one non-photosensitive hydrophilic colloid layer in an amount of 50 mg/m.sup.2 or more.