No worries, @Scott16475! I'll be happy to help you out with the cloud.
Unfortunately, once you sync your gallery to the cloud, the gallery essentially becomes the could (unless you used up all of the available storage) so you can't delete pictures only from the phone. However, if you have an SD card, you could move the pictures to the card to try and get around this.
You can check to see what pictures are on the cloud from within the gallery app! Just go to Gallery>Settings>Cloud View to check that out.
If you still have trouble with the Cloud, would you mind letting me know what carrier you have? I know Verizon has there own cloud storage, which could change a few things with this.
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