Ah, OK.
This probably doesn’t work, but does adding a blank line do it?
<img align="left" width="49%" height="auto" src="link.jpg">
<img align="right" width="49%" height="auto" src="link.jpg">
<img align="center" width="auto" height="auto" src="link.jpg">
(It wouldn’t work in a normal webpage, but maybe it works here in a Markdown app.)
Otherwise, you could use CSS to add some margin, for example:
<img align="center" width="auto" height="auto" src="link.jpg"
style="top-margin: 1em;">
If you don’t know CSS you can read up on the various measurement units and fancier methods of CSS layout at CSS: Cascading Style Sheets | MDN.
You can also pull the styling out of the HTML into a separate snippet to make it easier to maintain, with markup like:
<img align="center" width="auto" height="auto" src="link.jpg"
class="specialpics">
and styling like:
.specialpics {margin-top: 1em;}