Photographic light-sensitive material and method of developing the same

A method of developing a photographic light-sensitive material comprising color-developing the photographic light-sensitive material in the presence of a color coupler, said photographic light-sensitive material comprising, on a support, at least one silver halide emulsion layer containing silver halide grains, wherein at least 50% of the total projected surface area of silver halide grains contained in said silver halide emulsion layer is occupied by tabular grains comprising at least about 50 mol % of silver chloride, said tabular grains having been precipitated in the presence of a crystal habit controlling amount of a spectral sensitizing dye before and during nucleation and during precipitation of the silver halide grains, and having an aspect ratio of at least 2 and further wherein nucleation of said silver halide grains has been carried out under a chloride concentration of at least about 0.15 mol/liter.

A photographic light-sensitive material comprising, on a support, at least one silver halide emulsion layer containing silver halide grains, wherein at least 50% of the total projected area of silver halide grains contained in said silver halide emulsion layer is occupied by tabular grains comprising at least about 50 mol % of silver chloride, said tabular grains having been prepared in the presence of a crystal habit controlling amount of a spectral sensitizing dye before and during nucleation and during precipitation of the silver halide grains, and having an aspect ratio of at least 2.