Adobe announced that it has begun shipping Creative Suite 5, which they introduced earlier this month.

Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced the availability of the Adobe Creative Suite 5 product family, the highly-anticipated release of the industry-leading design and development software for virtually every creative workflow. With more than 250 new product features, the Creative Suite 5 product line brings exciting full-version upgrades of flagship creative tools and workflow enhancements to designers and CS5developers — enabling the creation, delivery and optimization of content across media for greater impact and results.

Adobe is now offering free trial downloads for Creative Suite 5 and its various components. You can get a 30 day trial of any of the CS5 full software versions to try out. CS5 is also available at Amazon for slight discounts here: Adobe Creative Suite 5 Design Premium Upgrade from CS4

To see some new features of Adobe CS5 check out our article “Adobe CS5 – whats new for photographers”