Sharpening, and improving focus, and reducing motion blur

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What are people doing in this area?

I used to use unsharp masking in Photoshop exclusively -- sometimes
with a fairly large radius (1-5 pixels) on the full-resolution image,
and always with a much smaller radius, perhaps .7 or 1.1 pixels for
web-resolution images.  Now with CS2 I'm mostly using "smart
sharpening", but not understanding it as well.  I know I use smaller
numbers in the dialog box :-).

Do people find it easier to judge when an image for screen use is
over-sharpened at 100%, or perhaps at 200% viewing size?  And how do
you decide how to sharpen for print?

And I expanded out to Focus Magic, which can sometimes do miraculous
things with clearly out-of-focus images (visible back-focus for
example), and also sometimes with motion-blurred images.  That's
trial-and-error, and sometimes very slow (several minutes for a
10-pixel radius out-of-focus correction on a 10MP image).  But the
results are sometimes pretty much miraculous.
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