I'm not familiar with the View/Image plane but I'll check it out.
I did the Dog tutorial and the Basic Human Modeling Tutorial in the freebie section and that's where I learned to attach images to a polygon plane.
I can tell you step by step how to do it if you want or you can just download the free tutorials I mentioned. Just let me know.
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