Adobe Systems announced yesterday that its recently released Creative Suite 4 is already shipping out worldwide. The offer includes the company’s best professional graphics and media applications.

Adobe described the release as its biggest yet, offering updated versions of Flash, Fireworks, After Effects, Soundbooth, OnLocation, Photoshop, Illustrator, Dreamweaver, InDesign, Contribute, Premiere Pro and Encore. There are four versions available and their prices range from $1,699 to $2,499.

In addition to the focus put on expanding the work options related to high-definition video and mobile content, the company also added support for the latest formats.

In addition to this release, Adobe also began shipping today its Flash Player 10 browser plug-in, with a whole set of new features. Its May beta release let users in on some of its new features, which include support for custom filters and also special effects, native 3D transformation and animation, advanced audio processing and GPU hardware acceleration. It is available as a free download from the company’s official Web site and can be used for Windows, Macintosh and Linux.

"A lot of the features in [Flash Player] 10 are all about providing interactive designers and developers unprecedented creative control," said Tom Barclay, senior product marketing manager in Adobe's platform business unit. He also added: "Designers and developers...can transform and animate 2D content into the 3D space. That functionality is now exposed in the form of tooling in Flash Creative Suite 4 (CS4) to allow designers to do 3D transformation animation without having to write code."