Using iPhoto, PhotoStream and iCloud

I have my own Apple ID and my husband has his own - he and I both have iPads, and iPhones and iCloud accounts = separately.  He had a bunch of photos on his camera which I took off and which I wanted to be in HIS  photostream = not mine.  So I created an iPhoto Library [on my computer] for him, I went into preferences and set it up so HIS apple id and icloud account was the only one listed and my own name or id is not involved at all. 
Then I imported into the iPhoto [his] the photos and set the Photostream to include them...went away and now it looks like the photostream not only has HIS 400 photos but also my 3000 photos as well = from my photostream [I do NOT like Photostream but am trying to live with it] -
not sure why PS of my stuff ended up downloading to his PS -- any ideas or suggestions of why???  And how do I fix it???

iPhoto is linked to the iCloud account on your computer. I must assume that in order to use your iPhoto to add photos to his photo stream, you must have logged into his iCloud account on your computer. At which point any photos in photo stream in iPhoto on the computer became his photo stream and not yours.
If you wish to use iPhoto in conjunction with his photo stream, you need to create a second user account on the computer for him. In the second user account you need to log into his iCloud account and then photo stream within iPhoto will work with his photo stream on his iOS devices. Photo stream in iPhoto in your user account will continue to work with photo stream on your iOS devices.

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