Today is the day that you have all been waiting for: Adobe ships Creative Suite 4. CS4 is promised to be full of greatness, awesomeness, adventure and some sweet new features. With this announcement, places like NAPP’s Photoshop CS4 Learning Center, Layers Magazine’s CS4 Learning Center and the many new Kelby Training Online Training CS4 classes become that much more useful. I highly suggest checking out those places to get you started looking like a CS4 pro right when the boxes land on your doorstep.

Check out the full CS4 shipping press release after the jump.

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.