# MakeAlbum press kit

> MakeAlbum is a photo-book printing service whose own AI picks the photographs and lays out the pages: you upload the whole camera roll, approve the book, and a 300 × 300 mm layflat hardcover arrives by post.

Source: https://makealbum.com/press · MakeAlbum, Lisbon, Portugal

## Boilerplate

MakeAlbum (makealbum.com) turns an unsorted set of phone or camera photos into a printed photo book. Its AI, built for photo books rather than adapted from a chatbot, drops the blurred and repeated frames, groups the rest into chapters by time, place and people, writes the titles and lays out every spread; the customer reviews the whole book in the browser and approves it before anything is printed. The book is a 300 × 300 mm square layflat hardcover with an acrylic front and a leatherette spine, 26 to 80 pages, printed by Saal Digital and delivered tracked, shipping included. Prices start at €199 in Europe and about $295 in the United States. MakeAlbum is made in Lisbon, Portugal, by Aleksandr Belov and the studio Norteira.

## The facts

- **What it is.** A printed photo book, AI-curated from the customer's own photos. Not a design tool: there is no file to download; the product is the book in the post.
- **Format.** 300 × 300 mm square hardcover, layflat binding, acrylic front cover, leatherette spine in white or black, matte or glossy paper.
- **Pages.** 26–80 interior pages, any even number, priced per page.
- **Price.** €199 for 26 pages to €349 for 80 in Europe; about $295 to $515 in the United States. Shipping included in both.
- **What the AI does.** Pre-filters blur, bursts and duplicates; scores and clusters the photographs into chapters by time, place and people; picks the frames to fill the page count; writes the album title, chapter titles and captions from a short brief; lays out every page in one of four looks (Minimal, Classic, Immersive, Polaroid).
- **What the customer does.** Uploads the whole set, hearts a handful of must-have photographs, reads through the finished book, edits anything (swap, reorder, retitle, re-roll a page), approves. Nothing prints before approval.
- **Done-for-you.** €59 extra: MakeAlbum's own editors curate, design and caption the book from the customer's brief; the customer gets a preview by email and approves it.
- **Turnaround.** Production typically 4–6 working days after approval, plus 2–4 working days delivery inside the EU (roughly 6–10 working days door to door); two to three weeks to the United States by DHL Express.
- **Where it delivers.** Europe, the United States and the United Kingdom today — Canada and Latin America coming soon.
- **Printing.** Saal Digital GmbH, Germany; the US edition is printed by Saal Digital's US production.
- **Privacy.** Photographs are stored privately in EU object storage, never sold, shared or used to train AI, and deleted 90 days after the order ships or on request.
- **Company.** MakeAlbum, operated by Aleksandr Belov (NIF 319455580), Lisbon, Portugal; part of Norteira. Site launched 2026; the .com domain since June 2026.
- **Founder.** Aleksandr Belov, founder of Norteira, Lisbon.
- **Contact.** info@makealbum.com — replies within about one business day, Lisbon time.

## Images (credit: MakeAlbum)

- [A MakeAlbum 300 × 300 mm layflat photo book held open at a spread](https://files.photoportugal.com/portfolio/dc417f7d-d43c-469c-a410-48acf706e4e4/eb8e1af3-49bb-4d6d-8f4a-860cf1107443.jpeg)
- [The front cover: acrylic plate with the photograph and the title, leatherette spine](https://files.photoportugal.com/portfolio/82f3b621-87e0-475a-a9fd-cb27a5f477a6/04b27a01-faf6-4191-9c71-3436a3d45fe3.jpg)
- [A spread lying flat, a photograph crossing the fold](https://files.photoportugal.com/portfolio/d5640fa9-ebe2-4fd7-b5d9-eb21d14f042d/692b7f7f-2cd3-4b95-91f6-7356886f551f.jpg)
- [A chapter opener page with its title](https://files.photoportugal.com/portfolio/41d9607f-2c5e-4a74-9403-a4710200c026/8c318859-bad5-42b9-9fab-f97ec0470554.jpg)
- [The printed book on a table](https://files.photoportugal.com/portfolio/33becad3-d2b3-4641-a62b-147e354e9a40/5dd36247-ae7e-41f6-a7f2-54c220f4793e.jpeg)

## See the real thing

- [Example spreads from three albums](https://makealbum.com/examples)
- [How the book is made, step by step](https://makealbum.com/how-it-works)
- [Prices](https://makealbum.com/pricing)
- [MakeAlbum next to Mixbook, Journi, Saal Digital and Blurb](https://makealbum.com/compare)
- [Plain-text summary for AI assistants](https://makealbum.com/llms.txt)