It may be Monday and gloomy here on the east coast, but Adobe is chock-full of good news, even with a nor'easter making things difficult out here.

The long-awaited Creative Suite 3 is now shipping, Adobe announcing that its Design Premium and Standard as well as the Web Premium and Standard Editions are out the door.

For stand-alone applications, Adobe Photoshop CS3, Adobe Photoshop CS3 Extended, Adobe InDesign CS3, Adobe Illustrator CS3, Adobe Flash CS3 Professional, Adobe Dreamweaver CS3, Adobe Fireworks CS3 and Adobe Contribute CS3 also shipped today.

The company has stated that its Creative Suite 3 Production Premium and Creative Suite 3 Master Collection editions are expected to ship in the third quarter of this year according to Macworld News.

The currently shipping editions run at the following prices:
-Creative Suite 3 Design Premium Edition: US$1799
-Creative Suite 3 Design Standard Edition: US$1199
-Creative Suite 3 Web Premium Edition: US$1599
-Creative Suite 3 Web Standard Edition: US$999

Adobe has also announced the it has released public betas of its Premiere Pro video editing program as well as After Effects, its digital effects editing program and intended part of Creative Suite 3.

Premiere Pro, when coupled with its companion produce, Encore CS3, lets the user author to formats such as DVD, Blu-ray Disc, Flash, Flash SWF and formats for mobile devices.

The new version of Premiere features a virual flow chart as well as automated menu generation and custom-created menus created from the Photoshop file format. Designed around cross-program compatibility, users can edit the buttons, text and images, which are stored as layers, in Premiere and Encore in Photoshop.

Adobe Premiere Pro's public beta can be is available as a one gigabyte download from the Adobe Labs web site and requires Mac OS X 10.4.9 to run.

After Effects CS3, the upcoming version of Adobe's video effects program, will include new features including the Shape Layers and Puppet tool as well as a feature called Brainstorm, which allows the user to evolve animation variations based on given parameters input by the user.

The After Effects CS3 beta is available to licensed After Effects 7.0 users and a valid serial number will need to be entered beyond a two day grace period for the software. The beta is a 1.0 gigabye download and requires Mac OS X 10.4 or later to run.