Hidden & Recently deleted Albums in Photos  on IOS 8

Having just updated to IOS8 and lost iPhoto without warning I am trying to get my head round the new features in Photos.
If I want to clear space how can I do that if the deleted items are now moved into a Recently Deleted Album?
And
If the point of the Hidden Album is to hide photos how do you stop someone looking at them if all you have to do is tap on the album and it opens?
Sorry if I am missing the obvious!
And does anyone know of a replacement photo editing app please! I need to have something where I can add titles, at my age I will never remember where the heck I took the photo otherwise!

OK, I've got a similar, but more irritating, problem.
My iPad Air 16GB had too many photos on, using up nearly 4GB of space.  So I archived these photos and got rid of all but about 25.
In the next couple of weeks I was a lot better at housekeeping my photos and deleted them every couple of days.
Next time I wanted to do an iTunes sync, I noticed Photos was still taking up about 4 GB.  Hmm, so I had a look on the net and saw the recently deleted photos "feature" and how to deal with it.  Great I said to myself and went to the "recently deleted" folder where it had only about 40 photos.  So i deleted these i.e. ALL the photos in "recently deleted".  But still iTunes and the iPad were reporting photo usage as around 4GB.  Grrr
So I backed up my iPad, reset it to factory settings and restored.  Still 4GB being reported as photos, still an empty "recently deleted" folder, just the 25 photos I'd saved.  Huh?????
So I fired up Syncios - lo and behold it says there are about 2,300 photos in recently deleted.  But Syncios won't let me delete them and I can't see them on my iPad or on iTunes to delete them.  So what the **** do I do?????

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