Silver halide color photographic material and a method for forming a color image

A silver halide color photographic material having, on a reflective support, at least one yellow color-forming coupler-containing silver halide emulsion layer, at least one magenta color-forming coupler-containing silver halide emulsion layer and at least one cyan color-forming coupler containing silver halide emulsion layer, said silver halide emulsion layers each having different color sensitivity, wherein the reflective support comprises a base and two or more water-resisting resin covering layers, located on the side of the base where photographic layers are applied, have different contents of a white pigment and the water-resisting resin covering layer nearest to the base is lower in content of the white pigment than at least one water-resisting resin covering layer located on the same side of the base but farther away from the base, and wherein a silver halide emulsion layer containing a yellow color-forming coupler comprises at least one yellow-dye-forming coupler represented by the following formula (I) or (II) and at least one compound represented by the following formula (IV), (V), (VI), (VII), or (VIII):

• ##STR219## wherein X represents an organic residue required to form a nitrogen-containing heterocyclic ring together with the nitrogen atom, Y.sub.1 represents an aromatic group or a heterocyclic group, and Z.sub.1 represents a group capable of being released upon coupling reaction of the coupler represented by formula (I) with an oxidized product of a developing agent, ##STR220## wherein R.sub.2 represents a monovalent group excluding a hydrogen atom, Q.sub.1 represents a group of nonmetallic atoms required to form together with the carbon atom a 3- to 5-membered cyclic hydrocarbon group or a 3- to 6-membered heterocyclic ring that has at least one heteroatom selected from N, O, S, and P in the ring, R.sub.2 may be bonded to Q.sub.1 to form a bicyclic or a higher polycyclic ring, Z.sub.2 represents a hydrogen atom or a group capable of being released upon coupling reaction of the coupler represented by formula (II) with an oxidized product of an aromatic primary amine developing agent, and Y.sub.2 has the same meaning as that of Y.sub.1 of formula (I), ##STR221## wherein R.sub.3 represents a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, an acyl group, an aryl group, or an alkenyl group, R.sub.4, R.sub.5, R.sub.6, and R.sub.7 each represent independently an alkyl group, R.sub.8 represents a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group, the methylene group joining the two benzene rings joins them at the ortho position, the meta position, or the para position to the oxygen atom of the respective rings, and if they are joined at the para positions, R.sub.5 or R.sub.7 represents the linking methylene group itself, and in that case an alkyl group may further be present on the benzene ring, ##STR222## wherein R.sub.9 represents a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, an alkyl group, or an acyl group, R.sub.10 and R.sub.11 each represent independently an alkyl group or alkoxy group, and W.sub.2 represents a monovalent group capable of substitution on the benzene ring, ##STR223## wherein Q.sub.2 represents a divalent group for forming a 5- to 7-membered heterocyclic ring together with the nitrogen atom and an alkylene group, R.sub.12 represents an alkyl group, an alkoxy group, an aryloxy group, or an acyloxy group, and W.sub.3 represents a monovalent group capable of substitution on the benzene ring, ##STR224## wherein R.sub.13, R.sub.14, R.sub.15, and R.sub.16 each represent a hydrogen atom, an aliphatic group, an aromatic group, an aliphatic oxycarbonyl group, an aromatic oxycarbonyl group, or a carbamoyl group, provided that all of R.sub.13, R.sub.14, R.sub.15, and R.sub.16 do not represent hydrogen atoms at the same time, and the number of the epoxy groups represented by formula (VII) may be 1 to 60 groups in the same molecule, ##STR225## wherein R.sub.17, R.sub.18, and R.sub.19 each represent independently an alkyl group or an aryl group, if R.sub.18 and R.sub.19 each represent an alkyl group, they may bond together to form a 5- to 7-membered ring, and one of R.sub.18 and R.sub.19 may be a hydrogen atom.