How can I choose which photos to iCloud phone

So I have a lot of pictures on my iMac (under OSX El Capitan) and so now I Cloud that they almost fill the memory on my iPhone 4.  Is there a way I can choose only the pictures I want to leave iCloud appear on my phone?

iCloud is mainly a synchronization service to do all the libraries on all identical devices and update, if one of the library changes.  If you don't want not all photos from your Mac to your iPhone, do not use iCloud photo library, but synchronize only the albums selected to your iPhone with iTunes (see: Sync photos to your iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch in iTunes - Apple Support).

Or keep only an iCloud small library. You can have a photo library large format on your Mac, which does not synchronize with iCloud and a smaller with photos selected to be synchronized in iCloud.  See: https://help.apple.com/photos/mac/1.0/?lang=en#/pht6d60b524

If you use the "Optimize storage" option on your iPhone, all the photos should fit on your iPhone, even if your iCloud library is very large. Photos will always use any available storage, but optimize more photos, if storage is necessary for other applications.

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