To provide the photographic material and its processing method having high sensitivity and free of uneven surface gloss even in the case of low replenished processing as a result of considering environmental problems and rapid processing and prevented from developing film cracking in low humidity and film sticking with each other in high humidity.

The silver halide photographic material has at least one hydrophilic colloidal layer including a silver halide emulsion layer and this hydrophilic colloidal layer contains flat silica and a polymer having at least one kind of acid or its salt selected from carboxylic, phosphonic, and sulfonic residues and its content is ≥15mol%.