Sharpen image in Photoshop cs4

A co-worker had a TV stolen and I am trying to help her by sharpening an picture of the serial number on the back but I can't seem to sharpen it enough to read the numbers on the back using the unsharp mask.

Where is the serial number?
If it’s above the bar code on the white sticker on the left I would consider this undertaking hopeless.

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Hello, I'd like to extract an image in Photoshop CS4, but I can't find the Extract tool. I saw an online tutorial that says it's under the Filter Menu > Extract. But it's not there. Any thoughts?
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http://www.adobeforums.com/cgi-bin/webx?128@@.3bbdbe06
(#11 of 15)
"Peter, we have found that PSA really does use CS2 with a simple workaround: you must go into the CS2 folder, right-click the executable file, select COPY from the pop-up menu. Now, right-click any blank area of the same folder and select PASTE to add a copy of this executable. I suggest renaming this copy to something like CS2COPY.EXE
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You were right about trashing the finalcut plist. As well as a very specific set of directions I now have put together from what you and others have said elsewhere, and this is it, i hope it helps others with their Canon XHA1 and Final Cut Express HD:
Trash the final cut preferences (plist) in your Home - LIbrary.
go into the Canon XHA1 menu, make sure that you're not set to down-convert to DV.
Get out of the menu. Shut the camera off,
plug in the firewire cable to both the camera and computer,
and turn the camera back to VCR mode.
Open up Final Cut, and go to Easy Setup ,
choose HDV- Apple Intermediate Codec 1080i60
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If you drag the files to the margins (e.g., near the menu bar) of Photoshop CS4 (11.0.2), and not to the workspace, they will actually open as windows.
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as I was surfing the InDesign forum, I just found this which is exactly like the question I was about to ask, but since I read that it's not that easy to do it with InDesign, I am sure that it's doable by Photoshop, but how ???
any way to do it ???
thank you very much .

Unfortunately I'm not too good for recommending good tutorials, as I'm almost 100% self-taught (experiment, try, fail, try again, succeed, that kind of thing).
A Google search for "create mirrored image using Photoshop" does turn up a lot of tutorial content, e.g., http://www.photoshop911.com/tricks/mirror_image.html
With Photoshop you can do anything to an image given sufficient time and effort.
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Sharpen image in photoshop?

Hi
I have a some RAW images in (cr2 files) and not all the pictures are in focus (only about half of each picture, so i would like to make everything in focus) there isnt any option to redo the pictures but, what are my options to sharpen it, that visually seems everything in focus!!!
can you give me couple of options as i was playing in photoshop something and always i managed to push the sharpness a little but also i need to be believable, to be done well and to seem to be done not in photoshop or exaggerated,( but to think was done when the image was taken)
So how can i sharpen the image(make things in focus ) please?
(The image is like the one i have attached, first obect is in focus and the background is not, and i would like to try making everything like the first one in focus)
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Wade,
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It's even happening on new, clean installations. It happens under both XP and Win7.
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