I am confused about how to manage photos between my iPhone, iMac and iPad. How do I avoid using all the storage pace on my various devices?

How do I manage photos between my ipad, iphone and imac without using all the storage on the various devices?

If enabled, iCloud Photo Stream ensures all new photos are sent to all your devices. Then you can simply add the ones you want to each one's Library, and delete any photos you don't want.
One technique is to designate one device as the "master" containing all your photos - probably your iMac, since it is likely to have the greatest available storage - and make sure you have a backup strategy for it. That way, any photos you choose to keep on your iPad and iPhone are redundant copies that can be deleted as you wish, or as required should you need to restore your iOS device. If your iMac breaks and its Library irretrievably lost, the importance of its backup becomes critical. Therefore, consider having more than one backup, and more than one geographical location for them.

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Same question.
I'm currently using the iPad pretty much just for backup: have the photos still on the SD cards, but also now on the iPad.
Sending a few photos to family once in a while is nice but not important.
I'm not going to do any editing, because iPhoto for iPad will just send the edited version to my iMac, unless I mess around with duplicates. No thanks.
What I really want to do but apparently can't: organizing. Add keywords, give star ratings, do batch file renaming with the date, give the photos titles because NOW I remember the name of that monument or church or whatever, because I was just there a few hours ago, but I won't have a clue when I get home.
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Welcome to the Apple Support Communities!
I understand that you would like to import your photos that have on your iPhone to your Mac and stop iTunes from syncing your photo albums from your Mac back to your iPhone. To accomplish this, I would first suggest importing your photos to your Mac using the instructions located in the article below.
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Hi,
i am trying to solve one problem. I have one iMAC where i have two user profiles connected to different AppleIDs. Next to it there are two iPhones and two iPads. I am trying to find out, how to manage photos from all these devices using one account on iMAC. Second question is if there is any finction in iPhoto that can publish images to NAS server? Second alternative for me is to byu iCloud drive space and use Family sharing for publishing photos. Bellow text schema is attached, it is only my idea and i dont know if this could work like this. Did anyone somehow solved this configuration? Thanks

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