I have too many photos in my main photo feed. How do I put photos into albums and prevent them from showing in my main stream?

Hi

First I'll ask, why is that a problem? When I open photos it remembers where I was in the page, whcich is normally with the most recent photos, so I just see a page with my most recent 20 pictures or so. I only see the others (5-6K or so in my system library) if I choose to by scrolling up.

To answer your question - the only way to stop photos showing in your main photos view is to hide them. But then they are hidden from everywhere, including in albums. The only way you can see them is in the Hidden folder, or in a smart album with the condition Photo is hidden.

So you could (if you wanted) Put them all into named albums. Then hide them all, Then setup smart albums to show photos that are hidden, and in one of the albums you manually put them in. You'd need one smart album per actual album.

If you are asking about the "Library" view in Photos 5.0 (with Years, Months, Days, All Photos) or "Photos" view with "Years, Collections, Moments" in the earlier versions of Photos, it is not possible to remove photos from showing there, unless you delete them from the library or hide them as Tony pointed out. The Library view is by definition showing you all photos. It is the basic structure of your library and you are supposed to build your own structure on top of this with albums, smart albums, and folders.

If you need an album, where you can see all photos that have not yet been added to an album and need organising, create a smart album:

• File > New Smart Album
• Set the rule to "Album is not Any".

You will find all photos there, that have not been added to an album.