How to optimise photos when offline?

My iPhoto library is bloated with "optimised" images. It consumes GIGABYTES of space when taking into consideration that I use an iPad, and iPhone4 and an iPhone3Gs. But I have no option, I must keep these waste of space files or continually regenerate them! But occasionally I do find the need to delete them (usually when iTunes has a brain **** about not being able to import so many photos -- and I really wish they could create a better error screen: "iPhoto could not import IMG_0345.JPG and other photos..." please tell me which photos or at least HOW MANY???)
My question is related to the timing of these optimisations. iTunes wants to do this when we're syncing. This is crazy! Do you know how long it takes to re-optomise 6000+ photos? Certainly this could be done in some downtime after all iTunes already knows which photos to do. Then in some idle time it should take care of this and allow syncing to be much faster. I'm hoping someone can "educate" me on how to force iTunes/iPhoto to pre-optimise images so that I don't have to waste crazy amounts of time to achieve this.
Ideas?

Hello cskozma,
After reviewing your post, it sounds like you want to have the SD pictures on the iPhone and not need the internet to access them using iCloud photo library. I would recommend that you read this article, it may be able to help the issue.
iCloud Photo Library beta FAQ - Apple Support
iCloud Photo Library stores the original, high-resolution photos and videos in iCloud and can keep lightweight, device-optimized versions on each of your devices.
You need an Internet connection to access an original photo or video that’s stored only in iCloud.
Thanks for using Apple Support Communities.
Have a nice day,
Mario

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