Organizing and Storing Photos with Multiple Users

I am new to the Imac and have a boat load of photos from previous PC. I have successfully migrated them to the IMAC and started using Iphoto. I also have several user accounts for the imac for the family but want to be able to share all the photos across the user accounts. What is the best way to do this without having duplicate files.
I started by coping all the photos in a Shared folder directly under the user folder that everyone has access to. I now have been in my user account and dragged and dropped in my photo library. Things seem to be working however it appears I have now two copies on my hard drive. One set in the share folder where I have originally copied them to from the pc and another set in my photos folder on my user account. I'm afraid as the other users do the same to I, we will have 3 to 4 copies... and with the number of photos I have I scared I won't have the disk space.
How else can I manage all the photos in a single location while having multiple users be able to access them.
Thanks in advance.
Jason

I also have several user accounts for the imac for the family but want to be able to share all the photos across the user accounts. What is the best way to do this without having duplicate files.
Put them in the Shared folder as you have done. Now any user can access the files. It's basic but simple.
However, if you want to use iPhoto (and it's neither necessary nor compulsory) then you need to put the Library on an external disk formatted Mac OS Extended (Journaled) and set to ignore permissions.

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