Wish is a popular online shopping platform that offers significant discounts on a wide range of products. As a result, it’s a great place for students to find affordable items for their home, wardrobe and more.
If you’re a student, you can sign up for a free account with Student Beans to get access to exclusive Wish student discounts. Simply register with your university email address and you’ll be able to browse the latest deals and discounts on Wish.
Here are some tips on how to make the most out of Wish student discounts:
Plan your purchases in advance
With Wish student discounts, you can save a lot of money on your online shopping. However, it’s important to plan your purchases in advance in order to get the best deals.
Take some time to browse the Wish website and make a list of the items you’d like to buy. Then, keep an eye out for sales and discounts on these items.
Compare prices
When you find an item you’d like to buy, it’s important to compare prices before you make a purchase.
There are a few different ways to do this. First, you can use a price comparison website like PriceSpy or Idealo.
You can also use the Wish app to compare prices. Simply add the items you’re interested in to your “Wishlist†and the app will show you the lowest prices.
Check the returns policy
Before you buy anything on Wish, it’s important to check the returns policy. Wish has a 14-day returns policy, but some sellers have different policies.
To be on the safe side, always check the returns policy before you make a purchase. This way, you can be sure that you can return the item if you’re not happy with it.
Use a Wish promo code
If you want to save even more money on your Wish purchases, you can use a promo code. Promo codes are codes that you can enter at checkout to get a discount on your order.
There are a few different ways to find Wish promo codes. First, you can check the Wish website for current promo codes.
You can also find promo codes for Wish on third-party websites. Just do a quick Google search for “Wish promo codes†and you’ll find a list of websites that offer codes.
Refer a friend
If you have friends who are also interested in Wish, you can refer them to the site and earn credits. For every friend who signs up using your referral code, you’ll earn $10 in credits.
You can use these credits to get discounts on your own Wish purchases. To refer a friend, simply go to the “Referral†section of the Wish app and share your referral code with your friends.
That’s why we’ve put together this helpful blog post on how to stay safe when ordering from our site.
When you’re shopping online, it’s important to be aware of scammers who might try to take your money or personal information. Here are some tips to help you stay safe when ordering from Wish:
Only order from trusted sources. If you’re not sure if a website is legitimate, do some research before you make a purchase.
Be cautious of websites that offer deals that seem too good to be true. If a website is offering a product at an incredibly low price, be wary of ordering from them.
Don’t enter your personal or financial information on a website unless you’re sure it’s a secure site. You can tell if a website is secure if the URL starts with “https” and there is a lock icon next to the URL.
Keep your antivirus and anti-malware software up to date to help protect your computer from malicious software.
Be cautious of emails that claim to be from a company or website you’re familiar with but look suspicious. These are called phishing emails and they can be used to steal your personal information.
With these tips, you can help protect yourself from scammers and keep your information safe when shopping online.
When creating an account with Wish, be sure to use a strong password. A strong password is a mix of uppercase and lowercase letters, numbers, and symbols. Avoid using easily guessed words like “password” or easily accessible personal information like your birthdate.
We also recommend that you enable two-factor authentication on your account. Two-factor authentication is an extra layer of security that requires you to enter a code from your phone in addition to your password when logging in. This makes it much harder for someone to hack into your account, even if they have your password.
When ordering from Wish, be sure to only use your credit card or a secure payment method like PayPal. Avoid using public Wi-Fi when ordering, as this can make your information more vulnerable to hackers.
You can also stay safe by only ordering from sellers that have high ratings and positive reviews. You can check a seller’s rating by looking at their profile before placing an order.
These tips can help you order from Wish with confidence, knowing that your information is safe.
One question I get asked again and again is, ‘What is the best graphics tablet?’ as I’m a digital artist, it seems only natural to ask me.
It’s easy to understand why this is perhaps the most frequently asked question to not just me, but every digital artist. The reason for this is because graphic tablets are a unique and confusing technology!
So, the first step to finding the right graphics tablet for you is to understand the technology that’s being offered!
Thank you to Nekoni for her thoughts as an artist on graphics tablets.
First I’ll explain the words that are used
Then look further down, to find out about sizes.
At the end, I’ve recommended the best tablets, in my opinion, depending on various types of artwork.
Important!
What is a graphics tablet?
The graphics tablet (or ‘digital design tablet’) is an input device (like a mouse, or keyboard) which acts like a giant and highly accurate touchpad, controlled by a stylus (digital pen). It allows artists to draw directly into their graphics programs on PCs, Macs and Laptops.
What can one do?
TRON – speedpainting by SaZo
Pen-specific technobabble:
The language that is used by graphics tablets sellers is very confusing.
Here is a list of the most popular phrases used in relation to the graphics tablet pens and what they actually mean!
“stylus”
The term specific for digital input pens used with graphics-tablets and other hardware. It’s not always used, but is the actual term. (imagine if you were told your new ipad came with a free ‘pen’? Why would you want a pen? Now imagine you were told it came with a free ‘stylus’? Awesome!) “ergonomic pen” “grip pen” “easy to hold pen”
Almost all graphic tablets today come with a comfortable, easy to use variety of stylus (the exact shape and features vary). These don’t affect the quality of your digital artwork, but they do affect how comfortable you are while using them, and there’s no ‘right’ choice. “cord/cable/wired stylus”
Refers to a stylus that is attached to its tablet by a cable. The stylus is therefore slim and light. It’s pretty rare today, as wireless is the standard for most models. “battery operated stylus”
Sends a signal from the pen to your tablet. The stylus needs to be large enough to contain a AAA battery, but is shaped in a way so that it’s narrower at the point at which you hold it. “battery-less stylus”
The tablet powers the stylus via electro-magnetic resonation, which means these styluses are slimmer and lighter than the battery powered alternatives. “tilt sensitivity”, “tiltability” “rotation””tilt recognition”
What most artists are looking for when they chose a stylus with one of these descriptions is a stylus which has a sense of ‘right way up’ and ‘upside-down’ so that it can make more complex digital brush strokes (this is a great feature, especially for painters!). But these terms also may simply mean that the stylus still works when you’re holding it at an angle, (and I’ve never found a stylus that doesn’t). For this stylus it’s best to rely on reviews, as less scrupulous retailers and second-hand sellers who don’t understand the terms can easily use the wrong term, and lead you to disappointment if you don’t know what you’re buying. “levels of pressure sensitivity”
The range of pressure sensitivity starts at 256 levels of pressure, and reaches 3000. 1024 levels of pressure can be registered by most graphics programs, and only the newest and more advanced programs can register anything higher. Levels of pressure sensitivity literally explains how sensitive your pen is, the more sensitive pens will be able to tell the difference between different pressures, but this will only be shown to have an effect if you’re using extremely large brush sizes (upwards of 1000 pixels, in the latest software), or, in some cases, very light pressure (the quality of the pen’s nib and the drawing surface can effect the pressure you need to apply just as much). I suggest 256 and 512 for the beginner or sketcher, 1024 for the student or professional artist, and 2048 or above for the super-professional or any artist who uses a tablet for poster-sized art-work. “Interchangeable right and left-handed pen”
This is one of those marketing oddities, I assume the companies must say this in order to assure left-handed individuals that they too can use graphics tablets… though I’ve yet to find any evidence of a left-handed pen having ever existed.
Tablet-specific technobabble:
So now you know what they’re saying about the pens… how about the tablet themselves.
The tablets are all important and have their own range of specialist phrases.
Here’s a list of the phrases and their meanings.
“programmable hotlinks/ buttons/ scrollers / wheels?”
Most artists find the wheels/scrollers to be useful for controlling the zoom in graphics programs, and for rotating canvas in those that allow it. But neither they nor programmable hotlinks are a actually a required function on any tablet, they’re more of an extra feature that you can use, if you like, to save time. “lines per inch” or “accuracy”
Much like dpi or dots per inch, this is the sensitivity of your graphics tablet and how accurately it recognizes the location of your pen. Unfortunately, not only is this rarely mentioned, but the effect this number has also changes depending on your computer’s settings, and the size of the tablet itself. The end result is that the pen does not follow the path you draw exactly, or makes your lines jagged. The way to avoid this is to read customer reviews, even if a number is given, and bear in mind that the cheapest of these tablets usually come with this disadvantage. For the beginner, or casual artist, or someone who does not intend to use their tablet for fine art, this isn’t much of a problem. It can usually be compensated by working zoomed in, but that has the disadvantage of letting you see less of your artwork at once, and takes longer to draw the same lines. “work area/ live area”
Pay attention to this, a graphics tablet will be described as 10 by 15 inches, but the actual numbers you need to actually pay attention to those of the ‘work’ or ‘live’ areas, the space on which you can draw, which measure much less- say 5 by 8 inches. These numbers are possibly the most important thing when it comes to buying a tablet! What you need to look for is a graphics tablet that matches the size and ratio of your screen as much as possible.
What happens when you buy a tablet that is much smaller than your screen?
It’s very simple, when you draw in real life, say, on a piece of paper, you draw to a scale of 1:1. The motions you make with your hand equal the size of lines you end up with on paper exactly. When you draw on a graphic tablet, these sizes never match completely, but it’s best to get as close to reality as you can.
An example of a size mismatch:
Here is a small tablet and a large screen. You can see the actual line which is input into a tablet, then the line that comes up on screen.
imput: what is drawn in real life. result A mismatched size also has the disadvantage of being less sensitive.
If your tablet is half the size of another tablet, but only has the same level of sensitivity, your small tablet is only half as sensitive. Then add to that the fact your hand is only so accurate, and you are in effect trying to draw, really, really tiny.
If you’ve ever tried to draw a nice picture, but really, really tiny, then you can see the obvious flaw with that. There’s a limit to just how accurately you can control your hands.
There are ways to compensate for a small tablet, as you can simply zoom in until the size matches, or you can set your tablet to only represent a smaller part of your screen.
However, drawing on a smaller part of your screen has obvious flaws…andjust like with a tablet with low accuracy, drawing while zoomed in isn’t a flawless solutution either.
As well as being unable to see what you’re doing in relation to the rest of your artwork, or being unable to edit it quickly, you will end up taking slightly longer and each and every line. Proffesional artists should try to avoid this.
My own screen is actually 18 by 12 inches, and the tablet is smaller (around 12 by 7.5 inches of work area) but it is a much closer match and easier to draw with than my other tablet, which only has 5 x 3.5 inches of work area.
Another thing to take into account is screen ratio. I have a widescreen monitor. And so, I have a widescreen tablet.
Some tablets allow you to set a ratio for you to use, but remember, they can not ‘expand’ the work area outwards if you need a wider area to match your screen; they can only narrow it, vertically. If you anticipate keeping your screen for a long time, and it’s an unusual shape, try and buy accordingly.
What are altered art cards for Magic The Gathering, & where do they come from?? First let me say these should never be counterfeits! They are legitimate copies, simply painted over to change the picture. Many are changed to extend the artwork, removing those boring black or white borders. Others can end up very different from original image. Artists have added things like flames, cartoon characters peeking out from the corners, or other wacky additions.
Add Flare to Your Deck!
altered-mtg-cards-demon-vampire-art A well made acrylic painted card is a mini work of art! Nobody will have the same one painted the same way. Maybe you’re looking to spice up your deck with something different and original. Or perhaps you want to impress your gaming friends. Then you may consider adding a few alters to your deck. They can also make a neat gift idea for that special magic geek in your life!
What Shops Carry Altered Cards?
Look online for the best prices and availabiliy
altered-MTG-shop You probably won’t see these pieces for sale at your local hobby shop. If you want to buy one you’ll most likely need to turn to
the internet. You can find them easily on eBay, but sites like Etsy also have custom MTG sellers. Some sellers have even created small businesses by painting and selling their creations for profit, as well as taking commissions for collectors with special requests. It’s also becoming more common to see people painting away at the large MTG tournaments and comic conventions, where you may be able to find someone selling their wares to the hungry competitive players.
(Altered “duel lands” (c) Marta Molina)
Cheapest Custom MTG Work Online
FAQ: Are Painted Cards Against Copyright Law?
altered art mtg angel card These cards are perfectly legal to create and own!
Painted Magic cards are 100% legal to create, own or play with as long as they are actually painted on top of the original copies. As you may have already seen examples of, some people get very creative, adding a lot to the original work. The paint changes the look and feel, which in copyright terms is considered a “derivative work” meaning it becomes a new copyright work owned by the painter.
Restoration Angel by “Slatts Alters”
Are Painted MTG Cards Tournament Legal?
altered mtg cards DCI More players are starting to bring these cards in to sanctioned tournaments, and DCI judges have taken notice. There are now
some guidelines to follow if you intend to play in tournaments. One thing is certain, you must ask the head judge to
rule for permission before each tournament or else you risk being disqualified!
The main thing to qualify for DCI tournament play is the issue of the gameplay text. The text must still clearly be visible, showing the name, mana casting cost, expansion set symbol, and rules text cannot be obscured. Which means sadly most full art alters probably won’t be allowed in tournaments, unless you have a lenient judge.
Fear not, as most judges do allow these in to tournaments. While there are a handful who frown upon it, they seem to be in the minority. As long as the gameplay bits remain intact you should have nothing to worry about when playing in tournaments.
What About Additional Card Weight?
altered art mtg force of will Some people worry that these will make it easy to cheat or be cheated against, since surely the painting must make them more heavy. Factors that contribute to added weight are how much paint was used, and what type of gloss it was coated with. When put into sleeves and shuffled into a deck it’s impossible to tell the difference. Nobody can cheat by adding these to the deck, so don’t get any funny ideas!
