Method of processing silver halide color photographic lightsensitive material

A method of processing a silver halide color photographic lightsensitive material comprising a support and at least one lightsensitive silver halide emulsion layer containing a binder and lightsensitive silver halide grains comprising tabular silver halide grains on the support;

• wherein the lightsensitive material contains a developing agent or its precursor, and a compound capable of forming a dye by a coupling reaction with the developing agent in an oxidized form, wherein the method comprises:
• exposing the silver halide color photographic lightsensitive material under the following conditions:
• light source:
• natural light of 2000 to 9000 K color temperature or artificial light corresponding thereto,
• exposure time:
• 1/10 to 1/1000 sec, and
• exposure amount:
• such that 80 to 90% (numerical ratio) of the lightsensitive silver halide grains contained in the lightsensitive silver halide emulsion layer have at least one development initiating point per grain;
• and
• color developing the exposed silver halide color photographic lightsensitive material so that the tabular silver halide grains have an average number of development initiating points of 3.0 or more per grain at the time of completion of the color development.