Light-and heat-sensitive recording material and recording method by use thereof

An image forming method which uses a light- and heat-sensitive recording material which comprises a support provided thereon a layer containing one or more photo-color-forming element(s), each comprising a photodecomposable compound and an element capable of forming a color upon reaction with a decomposition product of the photodecomposable compound and at least one of the photodecomposable compound and the element capable of forming a color being dispersed in an organic solvent;

• the method comprising the steps of
• heating imagewise the photo-color-forming element so as to be mixed, thereby forming a latent image and then
• exposing the formed latent image of the heated photo-color-forming element to light to develop the latent image, forming a color image wherein there are two photo-color-forming elements and said two photo-color-forming elements are heated to different thermal energies to form a latent image or are exposed to light at different wavelengths to form a color.