FACIAL EXPRESSION IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE

A method and an apparatus for processing a facial expression image, an electronic device and a computer-readable storage medium are provided. The method includes: acquiring a first image, the first image comprising a facial image; recognizing a facial expression of the facial image; performing, in response to recognizing the facial expression as a first facial expression, a first processing on the facial image to acquire a first facial image; and covering the first facial image at a position of the facial image, to acquire a first image effect. Generation of a facial image effect is controlled based on a facial expression, thereby solving the technical problem that the image effect is complicated to produce and is fixed since the processing effect cannot be flexibly configured.