I would like to restore certain things such as pictures from my oldest backup, but I do not know how to do this.

Well, I put my whole question into the title. I have one old backup that is about 3.5g and I would like to restore just some on its content and then delete the rest to free up storage. I am a new user of icloud and find it difficult to access my content that is backed up.
If I restore all 3.5g backup to my iphone won't it create duplicates, restore old settings and configurations, and use up a lot of space. I really don't want any settings or config. to change or revert back to the old back up. I would like to restore photos, notes, voice memos, and videos I created with my iphone camera.

I wished I had known this before I said yes to using icloud. I guess those things will be lost and gone forever, since I do not want to lose my present settings and data. Also do not want to go through the hassle of backing up present, then resetting phone, then restoring oldest back up, then backing up oldest backup to pc, so I can safely backup selected items to my pc; then reset my phone again to restore latest back up. It would take way too much time and no guarantee.
I backed up my phone to my pc, but have not checked it yet, so don't know if it worked.
If I decide to quit using icloud (which will probably happen since backing up to external hard drive allows me to open backups) what will happen to my present data and settings? Will they just remain as they were without icloud, as they were before icloud? I'm scared to just delete it; not knowing what will happen. Also why is icloud now my outgoing mail server, when my web email was before I installed icloud and how do I restore my web email as my outgoing mail server. I am using yahoo/at&t for all my mail.
What will happen to my contacts, notes, messages, voice memos, calendar info, alerts, etc., on my phone if I delete icloud?

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