Silver halide photographic material

A method for processing a silver halide photographic material comprising subjecting to a development processing an image-wise exposed silver halide photographic material comprising a support having coated thereon at least one silver halide emulsion layer and at least one light-insensitive hydrophilic colloid layer, wherein said emulsion layer comprises tabular grains of silver chloride, silver bromide, silver chlorobromide or silver chloroiodobromide having an iodide content of 1 mol% or less, which have an average aspect ratio of 3 or more and which have been spectrally sensitized with at least one spectral sensitizing dye represented by general formulae (I), (II), (III), (IV), (V) and (VI):

• ##STR8## wherein, Z.sup.1 and Z.sup.10 and W.sup.1 and W.sup.2, which may be the same or different, each represents a group of non-metal atoms, which together with the adjacent atoms, form a 5- or 6-membered heterocyclic ring;
• R.sup.1, R.sup.2, R.sup.3, R.sup.5, R.sup.7, R.sup.8, R.sup.11 and R.sup.12, which may be the same or different, each represents a hydrogen atom, a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl group, a substituted or unsubstituted aryl group, or a heterocyclic group;
• a, c, d, e, g, h, j, k, l, o, r and u each independently is 0 or 1;
• b, f, i, m, n, p, q, s and t each independently is 0, 1, 2 or 3;
• L.sup.1 to L.sup.18 each represents a substituted or unsubstituted methine group;
• X.sub.1 and X.sub.3 each represents an anion;
• and W and W' each represents a halogen atom, a cyano group, an alkoxycarbonyl group, a substituted or unsubstituted carbamoyl group, a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl group, a substituted or unsubstituted alkoxy group or a substituted or unsubstituted acyl group, and wherein the melting time of the hydrophilic colloid layer in the photographic material is from 70 to 200 minutes at 50.degree. C.;
• and wherein said silver halide photographic material is a medical X-ray silver halide photographic material or a CRT image silver halide photographic material.