Record-shifted scanning of silver-halide-containing color photographic and photothermographic elements

A light-sensitive color photographic element comprising a support and, coated on the support, a plurality of hydrophilic colloid layers, comprising radiation-sensitive silver-halide emulsion and dye image-forming couplers, forming three recording layer units for separately recording blue, green, and red exposures, wherein the dye image-forming couplers in the element consists essentially of yellow, magenta and cyan dye-forming couplers and a developing agent or precursor thereof that is capable of shifting the hue of the dye formed by the cyan dye-forming coupler to the infrared for color image formation.

A light-sensitive color photothermographic element for recording an image comprising a support and, coated on the support, a plurality of hydrophilic-colloid layers, comprising radiation-sensitive silver-halide emulsions and dye image-forming couplers, and forming three image recording layer units for separately recording blue, green, and red exposures, wherein the dye image-forming couplers in at least one of the three image recording layer units consists essentially of infrared dye-forming coupler for color image formation, wherein the infrared dye-forming coupler is capable of forming, in reactive association with an incorporated developing agent or precursor thereof, an infrared dye;

• and wherein the element comprises a blue light-sensitive layer unit having a magenta dye forming coupler, a green light-sensitive layer having a cyan dye-forming coupler, and a red light-sensitive layer having said infrared dye-forming coupler.