Silver halide color photosensitive material and method for forming color images

A method of forming color images comprising the steps of:

• exposing imagewisely a silver halide color photosensitive material,
• placing the photosensitive material onto a processing material with water between the photosensitive material and the processing material in an amount of 1/10 through 1 times that required to maximally swell the exposed photosensitive material and the processing material, and
• heating the resultant assembly to form color images on the silver halide color photosensitive material, wherein
• said silver halide color photosensitive material
• comprises a support provided with at least one photosensitive layer thereon, which comprises a photosensitive silver halide emulsion containing tabular silver halide grains having an aspect ratio of 2 to 30, and accounting for 50% to 100% of the total projected area of all silver halide grains, and 50% to 100% of all silver halide grains in number, and having 10 or more dislocation lines per grain, a developing agent, a compound to form a dye through a coupling reaction with an oxidized product of the developing agent, and a binder, and
• said processing material comprises a support provided with a processing layer thereon which contains a base and/or a precursor of a base
• and wherein the developing agent is a compound represented by one of the following formulae I, II, and III:
• ##STR23## wherein each of R.sub.1 to R.sub.4 represents a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, an alkyl group, an aryl group, an alkylcarbonamide group, an arylcarbonamide group, an alkylsulfonamide group, an arylsulfonamide group, an alkoxy group, an aryloxy group, an alkylthio group, an arylthio group, an alkylcarbamoyl group, an arylcarbamoyl group, a carbamoyl group, an alkylsulfamoyl group, an arylsulfamoyl group, a sulfamoyl group, a cyano group, an alkylsulfonyl group, an arylsulfonyl group, an alkoxycarbonyl group, an aryloxycarbonyl group, an alkylcarbonyl group, an arylcarbonyl group, or an acyloxy group;
• R.sub.5 represents an alkyl group, an aryl group, or a heterocyclic group;
• R.sub.6 represents an alkyl group;
• X represents an oxygen atom, a sulfur atom, a selenium atom, or an alkyl-substituted or aryl-substituted tertiary nitrogen atom;
• each of R.sub.7 and R.sub.8 represents a hydrogen atom or a substitutent, and R.sub.7 and R.sub.8 may be linked to each other to form a ring;
• and each of the formulae I, II, and III includes at least one ballast group of 8 or more carbon atoms in order to impart oil solubility to molecules.