I deleted my Photos icon in pictures?

I backed up all of my photos to an external hard drive. I then deleted all of my photos on my Mac. I must have deleted the Photo's icon and cannot get iCloud photos up and running. How do I reinstall this? The reason that I did this was that I wanted to initiate iCloud storage without having to upgrade the amount of storage that I needed. I was thinking that I would store all of my photos on backup and then bring only the ones that I wanted back onto Mac to stay under the 20g storage limit.
I am currently bringing all of the contents from my photos folder from a backup from Time Machine that occurred yesterday. I am hoping that this is all that is needed to be done. Any suggestions?
P.S. I tried just bringing the "Photos" icon from my HD back up into Pictures on my Mac and that did not work.
Thanks.

All, I have apparently resolved this after performing the backup of all of my picture files from my Time Machine backup. The Photos program is currently "repairing."

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