An image forming method comprising the following steps, a step for imagewise exposing a recording material having an image forming layer to a laser beam light based on an image information and making at least a part of an exposed portion of said image forming layer removable, a step for forming an image by removing said image forming layer which is able to be removed, wherein radiation of said laser beam light corresponding to one dot in response to said image information makes a removable amount of said image forming layer variable.