The present disclosure discloses an image processing method and apparatus, an electronic device, and a computer-readable storage medium. The method therein includes: acquiring an original video; selecting, from the original video, a first video frame image; selecting, from the original video, a second video frame image in which a target object is contained, and separating, from the second video frame image, an image portion occupied by the target object in the second video frame image; performing transparentization processing on the image portion occupied by the target object in the second video frame image to obtain a transparentized image, and superposing the transparentized image on the first video frame image to obtain a special effect image; and replacing, in the original video, the second video frame image with the special effect image to form a target video.