PURPOSE: To offer a silver halide color photographic image forming method excellent in latent image preservability without deteriorating image preservability on a color image forming process.

CONSTITUTION: This color image forming method has a characteristic that at least, a kind of specific chalcogenazolium chloride compound is incorporated in a silver halide color photographic sensitive material, it is color-developed, and then, processing is carried out with a solution incorporating, at least, a kind of compound emitting formaldehyde.