Right after Adobe Flash Player 10 is released, Adobe announced that Creative Suite 4 has begun shipping. Woot!

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Oct. 15, 2008 – Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced the immediate availability of the Adobe Creative Suite 4 product family, the highly-anticipated release of industry-leading design and development software for virtually every creative workflow. Delivering radical breakthroughs in workflow efficiency – and packed with hundreds of innovative, time saving features – the new Creative Suite 4 product line advances the creative process across print, Web, interactive, film, video and mobile.

Customers can choose from six new versions: Adobe Creative Suite 4 Design Premium, Design Standard, Web Premium, Web Standard, Production Premium and Master Collection. The combination of Creative Suite and the new capabilities of Adobe Flash Player 10, also available today (see separate press release) deliver new levels of creativity and expressiveness across media channels. Designers using the Adobe Creative Suite 4 product family will gain unprecedented creative control using the new expressive features and visual performance improvements in Adobe Flash Player 10 to deliver breakthrough Web experiences across multiple browsers and operating systems.

Press Release (PDF): Adobe Creative Suite 4 Now Shipping
Website: Adobe Creative Suite

Adobe Creative Suite 4 has been announced officially:

SAN JOSE, Calif. – Sept. 23, 2008 – Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced the Adobe Creative Suite 4 product family, a milestone release of the industry-leading design and development software for virtually every creative workflow. Delivering radical workflow breakthroughs that bring down the walls between designers and developers – and packed with hundreds of feature innovations – the new Creative Suite 4 product line advances the creative process across print, Web, mobile, interactive, film and video production. With new levels of integration and expressiveness for Flash technology across the entire product line, Adobe’s biggest software release to date includes Adobe Creative Suite 4 Design editions, Creative Suite 4 Web editions, Creative Suite 4 Production Premium, Creative Suite 4 Master Collection, as well as 13 point products, 14 integrated technologies and seven services.

Press Release: : Adobe Introduces Creative Suite 4 Product Family

Similar to Adobe Creative Suite 3, there are a total of 6 favors to it.

1. Adobe Creative Suite 4 Design Standard
   1. InDesign CS4
   2. Photoshop CS4
   3. Illustrator CS4
   4. Acrobat 9 Pro
   5. Adobe Bridge CS4
   6. Adobe Device Central CS4
   7. Version Cue CS4
2. Adobe Creative Suite 4 Design Premium
   1. InDesign CS4
   2. Photoshop CS4 Extended
   3. Illustrator CS4
   4. Flash CS4 Professional
   5. Dreamweaver CS4
   6. Fireworks CS4
   7. Acrobat 9 Pro
   8. Adobe Bridge CS4
   9. Adobe Device Central CS4
   10. Version Cue CS4
3. Adobe Creative Suite 4 Web Standard
   1. Dreamweaver CS4
   2. Flash CS4 Professional
   3. Fireworks CS4
   4. Contribute CS4
   5. Adobe Bridge CS4
   6. Adobe Device Central CS4
   7. Version Cue CS4
4. Adobe Creative Suite 4 Web Premium
   1. Dreamweaver CS4
   2. Flash CS4 Professional
   3. Photoshop CS4 Extended
   4. Illustrator CS4
   5. Fireworks CS4
   6. Acrobat 9 Pro
   7. Soundbooth CS4
   8. Contribute CS4
   9. Adobe Bridge CS4
   10. Adobe Device Central CS4
   11. Version Cue CS4
5. Adobe Creative Suite 4 Production Premium
   1. After Effects CS4
   2. Adobe Premiere Pro CS4
   3. Photoshop CS4 Extended
   4. Flash CS4 Professional
   5. Illustrator CS4
   6. Soundbooth CS4
   7. Adobe OnLocation CS4
   8. Encore CS4
   9. Adobe Bridge CS4
   10. Adobe Device Central CS4
   11. Adobe Adobe Dynamic Link
6. Adobe Creative Suite 4 Master Collection
   1. InDesign CS4
   2. Photoshop CS4 Extended
   3. Illustrator CS4
   4. Acrobat 9 Pro
   5. Flash CS4 Professional
   6. Dreamweaver CS4
   7. Fireworks CS4
   8. Contribute CS4
   9. After Effects CS4
   10. Adobe Premiere Pro CS4
   11. Soundbooth CS4
   12. Adobe OnLocation CS4
   13. Encore CS4
   14. Adobe Bridge CS4
   15. Adobe Device Central CS4
   16. Adobe Dynamic Link
   17. Version Cue CS4

Adobe Creative Suite 4 should hit shelves before end October 2008.

By the way, Adobe CS 3 was launched last year on 24th April 2007.

Adobe Creative Suite 4 will support 64bit OSes running Windows, whereas for Mac, it will still be 32bit only. When Adobe Creative Suite 5 comes, it will support both 64bit OSes in Windows and Mac.

What’s Adobe doing with Photoshop? In the interest of giving customers guidance as early as possible, we have some news to share on this point: in addition to offering 32-bit-native versions for Mac OS X and 32-bit Windows, just as we do today, we plan to ship the next version of Photoshop as 64-bit-native for Windows 64-bit OSes only.

The development is frankly bittersweet for us: On the one hand we’re delighted to be breaking new ground with Photoshop, and when processing very large files on a suitably equipped machine, Photoshop x64 realizes some big performance gains. (For example, opening a 3.75 gigapixel image on a 4-core machine with 32GB RAM is about 10x faster.) On the other hand, we work very hard at maintaining parity across platforms, and it’s a drag that the Mac x64 revision will take longer to deliver. We will get there, but not in CS4. (Our goal is to ship a 64-bit Mac version with Photoshop CS5, but well be better able to assess that goal as we get farther along in the development process.)

Source: John Nack on Adobe: Photoshop, Lightroom, and Adobe’s 64-bit roadmap