TS3992 Turn off photo library backup in iCloud

I used to be able to turn off backing up my iPad photo library to iCloud in iOS 7. It's now missing in iOS 8. The only option now is to turn my camera roll on and off. My iPads backup size had gone from 200 MB to 6 GB. Has anyone else noticed this?
Thanks!

I checked the FAQ and it doesn't answer my question. Before I turn on the iPhoto library beta I had 40gb about 30gb of that are photos and videos and 10gb were iphone data backup. I Have the 200gb plan, before and during iphone library ON my storage says 160gb available. Now that it's off my iCloud storage says 190gb available. it's been off for the past 5 days and it still shows 190gb available. My iPhone is backed up daily so it doesn't seem like its backing up my photos at all.

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