Patent ID: 7598026

Claim:
An image-forming method comprising: employing a silver halide color light-sensitive material containing at least one yellow color developing light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, at least one magenta color developing light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer and at least one cyan color developing light-sensitive emulsion layer and at least one non light-sensitive and non color-developing hydrophilic colloidal layer on a reflective support, wherein the water-swelled film thickness of a photographic structural layer on the side of the emulsion layers of the support is 8 μm or more and 19 μm or less and the film thickness at the side to which the emulsion layers are applied on the support is 3 μm or more and 7.5 μm or less; and imagewise exposing the yellow color developing light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer of the silver halide color light-sensitive material to coherent light from a blue color- emitting semiconductor laser at an emission wavelength of 420 nm to 450 nm.