1. A method of forming a color image comprising the steps of: imagewise exposing a silver halide color photographic material comprising a support having thereon at least one silver halide light-sensitive layer containing silver halide grains and a dye-forming coupler and at least one light-insensitive layer and developing the exposed photographic material at a developing temperature of 43 to 180° C. to form a color image, wherein when the photographic material is exposed so that the developed light-sensitive layer has a transmission density of a minimum density plus 0.1, the developed light-sensitive layer comprises dye-clouds having an average diameter of 3.0 to 20.0 &mgr;m.