Method for forming a color image by scanning exposure using a photographic material containing a specific phenol derivative

A method for forming a color image using a silver halide color photographic material having, on a support, at least three silver halide photosensitive layers that are different in color sensitivity and that contain, respectively, couplers capable of forming yellow, magenta, and cyan and at least one non-photosensitive layer, which comprises subjecting said silver halide color photographic material, wherein at least one colorless and non-color-forming compound represented by formula (I) shown below is contained in at least one of the non-photosensitive layers of said silver halide color photographic material, to scanning exposure with a laser, the exposure time being 10.sup.-4 sec or less per picture element, and processing said exposed silver halide color photographic material with a color developer:

• ##STR33## wherein X represents a hydrogen atom, a hydroxyl group, an amino group, or a sulfonamido group, R.sup.11 and R.sup.12 each represent the group defined for X, or an alkyl group, an aryl group, an amido group, a ureido group, an alkylthio group, an arylthio group, an alkoxy group, or an aryloxy group, or R.sup.11 and R.sup.12 may together form a carbocyclic ring or a heterocyclic ring;
• when X represents a hydrogen atom, R.sup.11 represents a hydroxyl group, an amino group, or a sulfonamido group;
• and R.sup.13 represents a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, a sulfo group, a carboxyl group, an alkyl group, an acyl group, an oxycarbonyl group, a carbamoyl group, a sulfonyl group, or a sulfamoyl group, provided that the molecular weight of the compound represented by formula (I) is 390 or more.