Full color recording materials and a method of forming colored images

A full color recording material which has, on a support, at least one light-insensitive hydrophilic colloid layer and at least three silver halide photosensitive emulsion layers which have different color sensitivities and which contain a yellow coupler, magenta coupler and cyan coupler, respectively, and in which at least two of these layers are selectively spectrally sensitized to match semiconductor laser light beams of wavelengths greater than 670 nm, wherein said at least three silver halide photosensitive layers which have different color sensitivities each contains silver chlorobromide grains with a layer average silver chloride content of from 96 to 99.9 mol %, and said silver chlorobromide grains have a silver bromide local phase of which the silver bromide content is higher than that of the surroundings thereof, wherein

• said silver chlorobromide grains having a silver bromide local phase are contained in an amount of at least 50 mol % based on the silver halide contained in the emulsion containing the silver chlorobromide grains;
• the silver bromide content in the silver bromide local phase is from 20 to 60%;
• at least one of said spectrally sensitized silver halide photosensitive layers is spectrally sensitized selectively using at least one of a sensitizing dye selected from the group consisting of compounds represented by the general formulae (I), (II), (II)' and (III) to match the wavelength of a semiconductor laser light beam in any of the wavelength regions 660 to 690 nm, 740 to 790 nm, 800 to 850 nm and 850 to 900 nm:
• ##STR80## wherein Z.sub.11 and Z.sub.12 each represents a group of atoms which forms a heterocyclic ring of five or six members and contains at least one of a nitrogen atom, a sulfur atom, an oxygen atom, a selenium atom and a tellurium atom as a hetero-atom, said ring may be a condensed ring, and may be substituted with at least one substituent, R.sub.11 and R.sub.12 each represents an alkyl group, an alkenyl group, an alkynyl group or an aralkyl group, m.sub.11 represents a positive integer of 2 or 3, R.sub.13 represents a hydrogen atom, and R.sub.14 represents a hydrogen atom, a lower alkyl group or an aralkyl group, or R.sub.14 may be joined with R.sub.12 to form a five or six membered ring, and when R.sub.14 represents a hydrogen atom, R.sub.13 may be joined with another R.sub.13 group to form a hydrocarbonyl or heterocyclic ring, j.sub.11 and k.sub.11 each represents 0 to 1, X.crclbar..sub.11 represents an acid anion, and n.sub.11, represents 0 or 1:
• ##STR81## wherein Z.sub.21 and Z.sub.22 are the same as Z.sub.11 and Z.sub.12 in general formula (I), respectively, R.sub.21 and R.sub.22 are the same as R.sub.11 and R.sub.12 in general formula (I), respectively, and R.sub.23 represents an alkyl group, an alkenyl group, an alkynyl group or an aryl group, m.sub.21 represents an integer of 2 or 3, R.sub.24 represents a hydrogen atom, a lower alkyl group or an aryl group, or R.sub.24 may be joined with another R.sub.24 group to form a hydrocarbonyl or heterocyclic ring, Q.sub.21 represents a sulfur atom, an oxygen atom, a selenium atom or an ##STR82## group, and R.sub.25 is the same as R.sub.23, j.sub.21, k.sub.21, X.crclbar..sub.21, and n.sub.21 are the same as j.sub.11, k.sub.11, X.crclbar..sub.11 and n.sub.11 in general formula (I), respectively, R'.sub.24 and m'.sub.21 are the same as R.sub.24 and m.sub.21, respectively:
• ##STR83## wherein Z.sub.31 represents a group of atoms which forms a heterocyclic ring, Q.sub.31 is the same as Q.sub.21, in general formula (II), R.sub.31 is the same as R.sub.11 or R.sub.12 in general formula (I), R.sub.32 is the same as R.sub.23 in general formula (II), m.sub.31 represents an integer of 2 or 3, R.sub.33 is the same as R.sub.24 in general formula (II) or R.sub.24 may be joined with an R.sub.33 group to form a hydrocarbonyl or heterocyclic ring, and j.sub.31 is the same as j.sub.11 in general formula (I);
• and
• the silver bromide local phase is located on the surface of the silver halide grains.