Photo and iCloud

If I drop a picture in pictures (sync iCloud on) it get stored on the hard drive? I don't want to take place HD but I don't want to see (and do it on iCloud).

If you import your photos into Photos for Mac application, it will be stored in the photo library. If the photo library is on your system drive, the photo will use storage indeed here. You can keep your photo library on an external drive and connect only to your MBA to import the photos and upload them to iCloud photo library.

Or, enable the option "Optimize Mac Storage".  Then the photo library will be low, because that only smaller optimized versions will be stored on your Mac and the original size will be in iCloud.

Or, do not use pictures for MAc, but download the photos using the web interface at www.icloud.com. You can use the Photos.app it to transfer photos to iCloud.

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