How to get existing albums to iCloud photo library

My boss is a home builder and he needs albums of homes across his devices and I'm looking for a solution for getting the albums of photos across the devices. Any thoughts? The photos are currently synced from iTunes and when I turn on iCloud Photo Library, it says its going to delete those photos. Whats the best way to get them in the mix?

Given that it is a beta product - which i certainly understand - it still doesn't seem to work as it has been described.
I have updated to iOs 8.1 on my iPhone 5 and iPad 4; I have approximately 1000 photos which are in albums on the devices, and which I have backed up to my computer. Here is what happens when I turn on iCloud photo library:
I get the warning about removing photos from the device and downloading optimized versions back to the device.
The upload begins, but only selects 50 or 60 photos, and NOT just limited to those which remain in my camera roll.
Only that upload lands on icloud.com. The other 900 or so just seem to drop into space, and can only be found on my computer.
Only those 50 or 60 are downloaded back to the device.
I swear with great vigor and volume, and restore my computer back up to the device.
I have the sense that there is some obvious step I'm missing, because this just does NOT seem to way this service is supposed to work, and I would think even a beta would work as described. But I've tried this multiple times on both devices, with the same result. I had great hopes that iPL would work as it seemed to be described and get me out of backing up to my computer, to Google Plus, and to Onedrive. Apparently not, at least not yet.
Would be deeply grateful for any advice.

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