Method of processing silver halide color photographic materials

A method of processing a silver halide color photographic material comprising the steps of:

• (1) developing in a color developing bath an image-wise exposed silver halide color photographic material containing a hydrophilic colloid in a total amount of from 3.5 to 6.0 g/m.sup.2 and having an alkali consumption of from 2.2 mmol/m.sup.2 to 3.0 mmol/m.sup.2, the developing step is carried out for 15-20 seconds, said silver halide color photographic material comprising
• (a) a support;
• (b) two or three silver halide emulsion layers on at least one side of said support, said two or three silver halide emulsion layers each containing
• (i) silver halide emulsions being sensitive to different wavelength bands from one another, said silver halide emulsions containing at least 90 mol % silver chloride, and
• (ii) oil soluble couplers that form dyes on coupling with oxidized primary amine color developing agent in an amount of 0.1 to 1.0 mol per mol of silver halide contained in the same layer, and
• (2) washing in a water washing bath said developed color photographic material for 10 to 45 seconds where water from said washing step is treated with a reverse osmosis membrane and reused in said washing step, wherein alkali consumption is the amount of potassium hydroxide, in mmol units, needed to change the pH of a liquid containing the coated layers of a 1 m.sup.2 portion of the photographic material dispersed in 100 ml of water from 6.0 to 10.0.