- = [ ABOUT ] = -

This package consists of two files: "Oblivion Icons.psd" and "Oblivion Icons.atn" (as well as this textfile :D).
They were created in a non-English version of Photoshop CS3. I hope they work with other versions, but I can't test it myself for obvious reasons - if I had any more recent or English version, I would have used it. 
For the same reason my names for tools might be a bit off - I never had an English version of Photoshop. I made a video that's on the nexus page that shows how to use it, but below is a written description. 

Please note that this is meant for more or less advanced modders. You must know how to use Photoshop, perhaps NifSkope and you must have the dds plugin for Photoshop installed. This is mostly meant for people that already know how to create icons for Oblivion, but are too damn lazy to do it, especially in bulk (like me, he).



- = [ INSTALL ] = -

Open Photoshop, open the actions window. Open the actions menu and select load actions. Load "Oblivion Icons.atn", you should get a folder with 3 actions: 
Create menu icon
Create menu80 icon from menu icon
Create menu50 icon from menu icon

Open "Oblivion Icons.psd" in Photoshop, it will be a 2-layer document with a paper background. 



- = [ USE ] = -

Open the object you want to create an icon for in NifSkope, find a nice angle and take a screenshot of it. 

Create a new, empty document in Photoshop, paste the screenshot in. 

Take the magic wand tool, set tolerance somewhere between 10 and 20, make sure the next two fields are checked, too (the one to soften the selection and to only select connected pixels). Click somewhere on the grey background (or whatever your NifSkope background color is).
Delete what you selected. You should have removed the background and have only your object cut out. Select it and copy it into the "Oblivion Icons.psd". Make sure it is above both layers (Background and Effect) and selected. 

Scale it down until it fits nicely. 

Run the "Create menu icon" action. 
If the picture changes color and you don't like that, disable the step "Unsharp Mask" by clicking on the little checkmark to the left so the field is empty. 

The action will prompt you to enter a file name. You can take this opportunity to make sure the dds settings are correct. They must be: 
DXT 3 (explicit alpha)
No Mipmaps (!)

Now your icon should be done. 



- = [ PERSONALIZE ] = -

For even more advanced users: The action will copy the effects of the Effect layer onto your object. 
If you want to make any adjustments, you can edit that layer style as you want, it will be copied the next time you run the action. You can also edit the pasted and resized picture to your liking before you run the action. 



- = [ MENUS50 AND MENUS80 ] = -

If you want to create the menus50 and menus80 versions of the icon, it's best to copy the whole menus folder two times and rename it accordingly. 
Then open all the (copied!) icons in Photoshop and hammer away on the menus50 and menus80 actions. This will resize the icons and overwrite the original file, so again, make sure to only use those actions on copied files. 

And you're done. 