The invention provides an image synthesis method and device, terminal equipment and a readable storage medium. The method is applied to a data transmission system. The data transmission system comprises an anchor end, a server and a playing end. According to the method, a data transmission mode between devices in a live broadcast scene is improved, a server obtains background image data under each real view angle before live broadcast is started, and an anchor end obtains foreground image data under each real view angle in real time in the live broadcast process; and the playing end synthesizes a virtual view angle image under the view angle to be watched according to the background image data and the foreground image data. According to the method, part of original work of the server is allocated to the anchor end and the playing ends to be executed, on one hand, the workload of synthesizing the image by the server is reduced, the working efficiency of the server is improved, on the other hand, the plurality of playing ends can synthesize respective live broadcast images to be played in parallel, so that the image synthesis efficiency is further improved, and the user experience is improved. And the live broadcast watching experience of the user is enhanced.