Silver halide emulsion, and color photographic light-sensitive material and image forming method using the same

A silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material comprising a support having disposed thereon at least a silver halide emulsion layer containing a yellow dye-forming coupler, a silver halide emulsion layer containing a magenta dye-forming coupler and a silver halide emulsion layer containing a cyan dye-forming coupler, wherein at least one of the silver halide emulsions comprises high silver chloride particles, the high silver chloride particles having a continuous outermost layer containing at least 30 mol % of silver bromide, the high silver chloride particles having a silver chloride content of at least 95 mol % and a silver iodide content of 0.05 mol % to 0.75 mol %, wherein the outermost layer has a center portion, the center portion being limited to a region within 10% to 90% of the volume of the outermost layer, the center portion having present therein a compound of a metal from column VIII of the periodic table.

An image forming method comprising scan-exposing a silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material and thereafter conducting color development processing, the silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material comprising a support having disposed thereon at least a silver halide emulsion layer containing a yellow dye-forming coupler, a silver halide emulsion layer containing a magenta dye-forming coupler and a silver halide emulsion layer containing a cyan dye-forming coupler, wherein at least one of the silver halide emulsions comprises high silver chloride particles, the high silver chloride particles having a continuous outermost layer containing at least 30 mol % of silver bromide, the high silver chloride particles having a silver chloride content of at least 95 mol % and a silver iodide content of 0.05 mol % to 0.75 mol %, wherein the outermost layer has a center portion, the center portion being limited to a region within 10% to 90% of the volume of the outermost layer, the center portion having present therein a compound of a metal from column VIII of the periodic table.