Hello, I'd like to see enhancements done to the Image Trace feature. I am a cartoonist and draw comics. Whenever I scan my drawings in I see that the digital copies show the outlines rather jagged. I began looking for a way to have the outline show smooth. That's when I found out about Image Trace in Illustrator.

Now the Image Trace feature does smooth out the lines, however, it will merge the lines in a way I'd rather not have. I've tried many different options and have not landed on the exact look I want, unless I first do the Image Trace and then go in manually and edit the line with erasing and redrawing. I've attached an example picture. The third image is more exact to how I'd like the Image Trace to show the outline.

I am in the stages of finishing a large comic book that is about a hundred pages and it is taking a very long time to go through every single page with Image Trace and then manually smoothing the outline. If there's a way that enhancements could be done to the Image Trace feature, perhaps specifically for comic outlines, it would be valuable for me because it would significantly save a lot of time, speed up my workflow, and create a better looking end product. Thank you!

PS: I primarily use Photoshop for my drawings but in order to smooth out the outline I began using Illustrator. So even if there is a tool/feature within Photoshop that could do the same thing of smoothing the outline that would also be valuable.