METHOD FOR PROCESSING SILVER HALIDE COLOR PHOTOGRAPHIC SENSITIVE MATERIAL

PURPOSE:To speed up desilvering by incorporating a specified yellow coupler, a specified magenta coupler, and a compound for reacting formaldehyde and the like and fixing it. CONSTITUTION:The photosensitive material contains at least one of the yellow couplers represented by formula I and at least one of the magenta couplers represented by formula II and the compound for reacting formaldehyde and the like and fixing it. In formulae I and II, each of M and M' is a group substitutable on the benzene ring; L is H, halogen, or the like; and X is a group to be released by the coupling reaction with the oxidation product of an aromatic primary amine developing agent. The photosensitive material is processed with a processing solution containing as a bleaching agent, the ferric complex salt of a compound A selected from ethylenediamine tetraacetate, diethylenetriamine pentaacetate, cyclohexanediamine tetraacetate, and 1,2- propylenediamine tetraacetate, and the ferric complex salt of 1,3-diaminopropane tetraacetate B in a molar ratio A/B of