IPhoto, two users, two iCloud accounts

I am trying to come up with the best solution to a problem and I am a bit stumped. Hope somone here can help me. Bought a MacBook a few months ago and love it. I like iPhoto as well. My wife and I both have a user account on the computer and in each account, there is an iPhoto library configured with our respective iCloud accounts to pull our photos from our iPhones. So far so good.
When we import photos from our regular camera, I use Image Capture to import them to a central spot on the SSD. I then open iPhoto and import those pictures. Then I have to switch user accounts and do the same import in my wife's iPhoto library, since she wants the photos as well. This is a bit cumbersome. I could share an iPhoto library between us in the Shared folder, but then we can only have one iCloud account synced with iPhoto. We each need our own iCloud account configured so that we can pull our pictures from our iPhones with ease. Does anyone have a suggestion for streamlining the import process from our regular camera?
Thanks!

Go to iPhoto Preferences and turn on Sharing.
Go to the Pictures folder of each user account, select the iPhoto Library and on the keyboard hit "command" + "i".
In the iPhoto Library Info window that appears, under the "Sharing & Permissions:" pane, add each other with the "+" and give each othe "Read & Write" priveleges.
Now you should be able to see and grab the photos you desire from the other user's library while you are in your iPhoto application.
I think.

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