Seeking advice on retrofit old photo images

Hi all,

I have old photo images scanned on Epson Photo Flatbed scanner >10 years ago. I need to enhance/retrofit their quality and to be used for creating Digital slideshow. I have both Darktable and GIMP running on Ubuntu 24.04 PC here. Please advise which of them shall I use? I'm searching for an easy and not too complicated solution. Thanks

Regards

In what way do the images need to be improved/enhanced?

If this is about increasing detail rendering, there's not a lot you can do. There currently are tools to up-res images using AI technology, but these also cannot make up detail that wasn't captured in the first place. Neither Darktable nor GIMP offer such a feature.

If these were old film images (e.g. slides) when you scanned them, I'd consider just leaving them as they are. You could optionally adjust the colors a bit to come closer to what the original scene might have looked like.