No, just by hand... You just place your picture as background, then first try to match the Blender grid (with...

Commenting post 145: No, just by hand... You just place your picture as background, then first try to match the Blender grid (with no object) with the perspective lines of your photo, then add a big cube to match heights, then usually it's enough.

But usually they are not photo-match, the background is full 3D, reconstructed from pieces of photos.