A method of forming an image is disclosed which comprises the steps of a) imagewise exposing a silver halide color photographic light sensitive material comprising a support and provided thereon, a photographic component layer comprising a light sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, the photographic component layer containing a compound represented by the following formula (I) or (II), b) color developed the exposed material, and c) bleach-fixing the developed material with bleach-fixer containing a silver ion in an amount of 0.04 to 0.11 mol/liter and an iron complex in which the iron (II) complex content is 5 to 35% based on the total iron complex content: ##STR1##