How to add a photo to 3d environment

[period-excitement]

Hello! I have a photo of a person that I want to build a 3d environment around. Blender has this nice feature where you can add a png to the camera and build your scene around the photo image. I was wondering if C4D has a similar feature. I much prefer to use C4d over Blender so thats why I'm inquiring about this here. My main software is C4D and Octane render, so it would be great if I can see the photo in the render view as well. I tried looking for some videos on this, but could only find backplate info.
Again, my exact situation is, I have a photo of a person I cut out in Photoshop and would like to build a scene around them in Cinema 4D and octane. If anyone could help, it would be much appreciated. Thanks!

[Dr. Sassi]

Hi period-excitement,

I have no Octane license installed, sorry. The simplest will be a Plane, and the texture is placed via a Material on it, providing transparency for the material.

A backplate sounds like something that doesn't allow a scene to be built around an image.

Here is a project file that showcases it with Redshift 3D, and content for the Asset Browser.
I have positioned two figures into the scene for the for- and back- ground.

CV4_2025_drs_25_TXpc_01.c4d

All the best

[period-excitement]

@Dr-Sassi Thank you! I will try this out with redshift . Much appreciated

[Dr. Sassi]

Thanks for the reply, period-excitement.

Thank you also for your motivation to explore; it is very much appreciated, given that your "muscle memory" is in Octane.
Please let me know if you have any questions about this. I'm happy to look into it.

(New themes, please in a new thread ) Thank you

My best wishes for your project