Album Cover Date Mistake.
I want to fix a 2009 date on an album cover to 2008. Rather than replace the whole album are there any "easy" fixes that don't include sending it back to the album company. I live in SoCal. It was the brides mistake, but I told her I would try to find an inexpensive fix.
The text is engraved on the leather with silver. I told her we could put something over it, but I wanted to see if there were any other suggestions.
Thanks

Any reason you aren't asking the album company about it?

- trr

That's a tough thing for a DIY fix. Ask the company, it's usually not that expensive.

If you shot the wedding, it's sort of your mistake... You should know when their wedding date was if that's the case.

I really wouldn't try to fix it myself, but that's just me.

Would heat embossing work? Here's how you do it: http://www.scrapjazz.com/topics/Techniques/Embossing/291.php

Take it to a scrapbooking/craft store and they might be able to help you out.

would say stand behind the product you sell and be willing to chew the mistakes you make. If it was you buying the album what would your answer be?

Put an engraved metal plaque type thing over it.

An inch or two of black electrical tape & Bob's 'yer uncle. Done.

These kind of mistakes are the photographers fault regardless of what actually went down. Check with the album company about some kind of reprint discount and keep the one you have now as a sample.

TRReichman wrote:
Any reason you aren't asking the album company about it?

- trr

There is no other answer then this.

If you don't like the response the ablum company gives you; then eat the cost as a sample and get a new one.

j.curtis wrote:
eat the cost as a sample and get a new one.

I was gonna say this ^^^

I would contact the album company and see what they say. The only way I can see this being the bride's mistake is if she got the album made herself and is only asking you to fix the mistake she made. If you shot this wedding and designed/submitted the album order, then it really is YOUR mistake and you should eat the cost of making it right.

bthatton wrote:
Put an engraved metal plaque type thing over it.

^ This

and it is also up to you to have caught it if you shot the wedding. Though I agree with the others maybe she will split the cost with you.

cordellwillis wrote:
bthatton wrote:
Put an engraved metal plaque type thing over it.

^ This

and it is also up to you to have caught it if you shot the wedding. Though I agree with the others maybe she will split the cost with you.

Which is worth more. The WOM that you took the extra step or that you screwed up their wedding album and made them pay?

It's all about business, not what is right or wrong.

j.curtis wrote:
cordellwillis wrote:
bthatton wrote:
Put an engraved metal plaque type thing over it.

^ This

and it is also up to you to have caught it if you shot the wedding. Though I agree with the others maybe she will split the cost with you.

Which is worth more. The WOM that you took the extra step or that you screwed up their wedding album and made them pay?

It's all about business, not what is right or wrong.

Not everyone is an azz. You gotta listen to what kind of clients you have; some will be openly receptive and others will not be. If the client says 'I screwed up' there may be a widow to ask. Only the OP can make that call.

Then again some people are azz-holes about everything that you say to them.

jeez guys, relax...

It should be a very easy fix for the bindery. They will remove the "9" and stamp an "8". It should cover up nearly perfectly. Even more difficult fixes, like replacing an "8" with a "1", which would show, can be fixed with a new cover, under $100

I just had to replace a whole album due to spelling a name wrong. I didn't do it, my employee did. Not that I can spell. She just messed it up before I could.
Now I have a nice studio copy...

White out and letraset.

@ everyone that says it's the photographers fault:

The OP didn't say that he shot the wedding. I have had people bring me their wedding photos and say they love my albums and can I make them one. What about that?

He didn't even say that he made the album. This could be his neighbor that knows he does weddings and showed the mistake to him and asked if he could fix it.

That being said, yeah IF he shot it, he should know the year he shot it.