Movement Tutorial

I was just wondering how the hell do you turn the sprite in the attachment diagonally like so Ive been wondering this for a while I'm pretty sure people don't go pixel by pixel for these do you do something in photoshop with it or anything if someone has a tutorial or could show me real quick on how to do it please do you can email me at @hotmail.com if you so wish Ty!

personally, I use a template to get the outline and add the armor and hair pixel by pixel... I suppose that, with some work, you can do it in photoshop, but you would have to cut out each piece of the armor and skew/resize them seperately, as to create the illusion of depth and all that...