How to share library in Photos

Hi -
Here's an outline of what I hope to accomplish:
I'd like my iCloud account to be the "master" account for our family photos -- we have more than 250 GB of photos, and I'll pay for the 500 GB plan for my account.
I'd like the photos to be synced across my devices through iCloud Photo Library, with full resolution originals residing our our family iMac at home, which is used primarily by my wife.
My wife is signed into her own iCloud account on that iMac, and as far as I know there is currently no way to be signed into a separate iCloud account (mine) just for photos. So I created a new profile for myself on this iMac, and figured that I could simply move the Photos Library (which has now been updated from Aperture with our full archive of images, but has not been connected to iCloud Photo Library) from her personal folder to a new folder in "Shared" (in the Users folder).
However, when I do this, I am not able to open that Photos Library from the Shared folder when I'm signed into my user account on the Mac-- it's giving me an error that says something like "permissions cannot be repaired" -- if I switch back to her account, Photos opens just fine (using the Library in that new Shared folder location).
So here are my two questions:
Is there a better way to accomplish my goal -- having my iCloud account sync to Photos on a family computer signed into a different iCloud account?
If sharing the Photos Library is the best way to do this, what am I doing wrong? Can a single Photos Library be shared between users on the same computer?
Thanks for your help and advice!

Thanks. I understand about the problems about sharing the iCloud Library, which is why I stated in the body of my post that I wanted to share the photos in the library. I am aware that Flickr and Picasa can do this, but they are not very good programs. Zenfolio is better, and gives a much better presentation of your photos, but, as I said, it is really for professional photographers. I guess I'm looking for something a lot better than Flickr/Picasa but not quite in the Zenfolio Pro mode.
As for unannounced features, I was under the impression that the new iCoud Drive feature has just been announced by Apple in its preview of Yosemite.

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