A silver halide color photographic material is disclosed, comprising a support having thereon a yellow image forming layer, a magenta image forming layer and a cyan image forming layer, each of which contains light sensitive silver halide, wherein when the photographic material having been exposed to light for 10<-10> to 10<-3> sec. per pixel and processed, an effective tone range of a color image obtained in each of the color image forming layers is 0.65 to 0.84.