A light-sensitive silver halide photographic material comprising a support and, provided thereon, photographic component layers containing a gelatin and including a silver halide emulsion layer and a layer containing a dye, said dye having, as an aqueous solution, at least one maximum absorption wavelength (λ max ) in the range of from 400 nm to 850 nm, and the amount of gelatin present on the same side of said silver halide emulsion layer being within the range from 2.0 g/m² to 3.5 g/m² and a method of processing a imagewise exposed light-sensitive silver halide photographic material as above by the use of an automatic processing machine at a speed of 20 to 60 seconds.