All you have done is dumped the texture onto a Poly Plane...
As the plane is not the same size as the original image it will not appear properly, therefore you need to UV Map it, or create a new poly plane that matches the same size as the original image.
There is a tute in the free section on image planes:
https://www.simplymaya.com/movie_page...html?tut_id=64
Use this as a guide to get your images on correctly.
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