Can I save photos to iCloud without taking up space on my phone??

I was wondering if the new iCloud features will allow me to store my photos on the server instead of on my phone.
By now, many of us must have an excessive amount of photos on our devices. It would be nice if I could 'archive' or 'keep on server' my photos from 2010 that I rarely access... but still have the ability to download them if I were so inclined. I am using GB upon GB in pictures and have no space for movies and music at this point.
Is anything like this possible? what about with iOS 8 and the new iCloud features?
I know if I create a stream it gives me the ability to download the whole thing.
Any tips/direction would be appreciated....

The best tip I can give you is to export ALL of your photos to your computer, then store them indefinitely on a portable HD and/or thumb drive as a backup.
You will get the full resolution photo when you do the export.   The one that gets copied to your photostream is a compressed version.
Don't have a computer?    Use a cloud-based storage service such as dropbox and pay for the extra storage if you exceed 5GB.
iCloud is an all-or-nothing backup service.   You can't just save photos to your iCloud... it doesn't work that way, yet.

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