HT4906 What does Photo Stream Do?

I'm just upgrading to Mountain Lion and not familiar with all the iCloud services. What does Photo Stream do? Can you limit the photos that go to iCloud storage? Can you allow some pics to be seen by others, but not all? etc.

There is no iCloud storage. Photostream is just a way of importing from one device to many. It never contains more than 1k photos or photos for more than 30 days - which ever limit is reached first.
http://www.apple.com/icloud/features/photo-stream.html
You don't have to use Photostream. It's not a method of sharing with others.
Regards
TD

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    http://support.apple.com/kb/ht4083
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