Silver halide photosensitive material and method of forming image

摘要

The present invention provides a method of forming a digital images exhibiting superior clearness in line images and superior visual whiteness. An image forming method of the invention comprises exposing a silver halide photographic material and processing the photographic material, wherein the photographic material contains a compound represented by the following formula (1) and a white area of the processed photographic material exhibits perception chromaticity indexes a and b of from 0.0 to +2.0 and from -2.2 to -4.0, respectively, in which the foregoing a and b are defined in JIS-Z-8730 and measured in accordance with a method defined in JIS-Z-8722: