to get text beside a photo, the image needs to be small enough to allow space; markdown doesn’t accept HTML code sizing. Either download or design a small enough variation, or edit.
You can resize images via code:
By combining the resize and making it an image link you can have nice sized images for a line of icon links.
<center><sub>Tiny Picture links back to my blog:</sub></center><center><a href="https://peakd.com/@bashadow"><img src=https://images.hive.blog/100x50/https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/bashadow/CSiw0Xl5-avatar3.png></a></center>This is the segment that allows the resize
https://images.hive.blog/100x50/
To add blank spaces between the images use the HTML Code I find stringing 5 blank spaces works pretty good.