A silver halide color photographic material comprising a support having thereon at least one silver halide emulsion layer, wherein the silver halide color photographic material contains an image forming compound represented by the following general formula (I):(Dye--X).sub.q --Y (I)wherein Dye represents a cyan dye group represented by the general formula (II) described below or a precursor thereof; X represents a chemical bond or a linking group; Y represents a group having a property of releasing Dye in correspondence or counter-correspondence to development of a light-sensitive silver salt having a latent image distributed imagewise and making a difference in diffusibility between the dye thus-released and the compound represented by (Dye--X).sub.q --Y; Dye and X are connected with each other by C or E in the general formula (II); and q represents an integer of 1 or 2, and when q is 2, the two groups (Dye--X) may be the same or different: ##STR1## wherein A represents a halogen atom, --OR.sup.1 or --SR.sup.1 (wherein R.sup.1 represents an alkyl group, an aryl group or a heterocyclic group); B represents an electron withdrawing group having a Hammett's op value of not less than 0.3; C represents a chemical bond, a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, a cycloalkyl group, an aryl group, a halogen atom, --OR.sup.4, --CONR.sup.4 R.sup.5, --SO.sub.2 NR.sup.4 R.sup.5, --N(R.sup.3)--COR.sub.4 or --N(R.sup.3)--SO.sub.2 R.sub.4 (wherein R.sup.3, R.sup.4 and R.sup.5 each represents a hydrogen atom or a group selected from those defined for R.sup.1, or R.sup.4 and R.sup.5 may combine with each other to form a 5-membered or 6-membered ring); E represents a chemical bond, a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, a halogen atom, --OR.sup.4, --CONR.sup.4 R.sup.5, --SO.sub.2 NR.sup.4 R.sup.5, --N(R.sup.5)--COR.sup.4 or --N(R.sup.5)--SO.sub.2 R.sup.4 (wherein R.sup.4 and R.sup.5 have the same meaning as defined above); and G represents a hydroxy group or a salt thereof, or a group selected from those represented by the formula (T), (U) or (V): ##STR2## wherein R.sup.21 and R.sup.22, which may be the same or different, each represents an alkyl group, a cycloalkyl group, an alkenyl group, an aralkyl group, an aryl group, a heterocyclic group, an alkylthio group, an arylthio group, an alkoxy group, an aryloxy group or an amino group, or R.sup.21 and R.sup.22 may combine with each other to form a 5-membered or 6-membered ring.