HT201238 How to transition a 1.5TB iPhoto Library to iCloud Photos when the limit is only 1TB?

My iPhoto library is over 1.5TB.  Since iCloud Photos has a limit of 1TB, what is the best way for me to transition my iPhoto library to iCloud Photos?

There is a contact us link at the bottom of every page of these forums - if you have Apple Care you can call them - you ask at an Apple Store
But again until the product is released no one knows and Apple does not speculate on unreleased products
If the released product has a limit smaller than your library then you will have to make multiple libraries or only put selected photos on iCloud
And that is a giant library - I have over 70,0 with over half 16 MP RAW images and my library is only 389 GB - are you looking at the size of the phtos in iPhoto or the size of the disk file which is much large since it includes multiple versions, database files and other items?
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