Syncing iPhoto problems!

Someone please help me! I'm going crazy trying to figure this out.
I use iPhoto. I had iPhoto on my old mac and ALL my photos were on there (photos from when I was travelling and living in USA so really dont want to lose any of them as they are precious memories) I then downloaded iPhoto onto my iPad2 and synced all my photos from iPhoto on my mac to iPhoto on my iPad2. I had all my photos stored on both my mac and my iPad2.
I then studpidly dropped my mac and smashed it to pieces. With it in mind that I was going to buy a new mac anyway I didnt think to do anything with the smashed mac, simply chucked it knowing I had everything I needed backed up in my cloud/dropbox and all my photos where still in iphoto on my ipad2. I bought a new mac and cannot for the life of me figure out how to sync my iPhoto on my iPad2 to my new mac.
I have even been to the Genius bar at the Apple store who have told me they dont know how to do it and just to email all the pictures from my iPad to my mac (There are 1000's and this would take forever) The only syncing option I can find is to sync iPhoto on my mac to iPhoto on my iPad and not the other way round.
I have also since got the new iPad Air and want to get rid of my iPad2 but cant get rid of it without getting my pictures off it first. There has to be a way to be able to sync iPhoto on an iPad to a mac! Please help me!!!!
Thank you

Apple's mistake was not to create this app, but to name it iPhoto, like the iPhoto application on the mac. This implies, that both app(lication)s could be used for the same purposes, but in fact they have been designed for completely different purposes.
iPhoto on your Mac is a full grown digital asset management system to organize and maintain photo libraries.
iPhoto on the iPad, iPhone is a simple tool to share photos to Flickr, Facebook, to add a few adjustments before sharing, to preview your snapshots taken on the device, to present photos you have synced to the device. Keep in mind, that the computational power of the handheld devices is limited, and most users don't buy devices with much memory. See the iPhoto iOS page:  http://www.apple.com/ios/iphoto/
iPhoto for iOS is the perfect home for all your photos. The beautiful new interface makes it simpler than ever to organize, edit, and share. Easy‑to‑use editing tools let you paint adjustments onto an image with your finger or add professional‑quality photo effects with a tap. And there are great new ways to create and share interactive slideshows, gorgeous web journals, prints, posters, and photo books. iPhoto isn’t just a collection of pictures. It’s a collection of possibilities.
It really is one-way. You can sync easily from your Mac to your devices, but there is no easy way back - the edits you do on your iPad are meant for "sharing" - to be used before mailing or publishing web albums or journals. All features are just designed for very small iPhoto libraries. There is no easy way to select multiple images. You have to tap each image. There is no way to sort the images - unnecessary, if you only have a few photos. And if you reinstall iPhoto on an iOS device, your iPhoto library will be gone and you need to restore it from your backup.
I am also hoping for a real "iPhoto" on my iPad, but we are not yet there. It would be great to be able to do some editing and organizing with the iPad while travelling and to sync it back to my Mac, when I return. Right now, I prefer to take a MacBook Pro with me.

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