HT4859 Where can I find my iCloud photo backup on my MacBook?

My iCloud storage is almost full so I'd like to upload my photo stream photos to some storage website so that I can delete my iCloud photo stream backup and clear up some storage space. However, I don't know how to find my iCloud photo stream backup on my MacBook. Is it at iPhoto? But my iPhoto only contains very few of the photos I've taken! Help! Thanks a lot!

It depends on when you enabled photo stream on your device and on your Mac.  When you enable photo stream on your device, only photos added to the camera roll after enabling photo stream are uploaded, not existing photos.  And photo stream photos are only kept in iCloud for 30 days (even though they remain on your devices until deleted).  Because of this, when you enable photo stream on your Mac, you only receive photo stream photos from the last 30 days, as old photos are no longer in iCloud.
If your goal is to reduce your iCloud storage, deleting photo stream photos won't help because they don't use your iCloud storage.  Only camera roll photos use your iCloud storage because they are included in your iCloud backup.
If you want to get all your photos in iPhoto, save your photo stream photos to your camera roll (if not already there) by opening your my photo stream album, tapping Edit, tap the photos, tap Share, tap Save to Camera Roll.  Then import them to iPhoto as explained here: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4083.  When you do, you will have the option to delete them from your camera roll, thereby saving space in your iCloud account by reducing the size of your next backup.

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