All professional photo editors require one feature in their photo editing software, that is editing RAW files directly downloaded from their camera. Since each manufacturer has his own extension given to the RAW photo file, for example Canon raw file photo format is .CRW, for Sony it is ARW, Nikon has the NEF, etc. It is very necessary that your photo editing software supports files from all these irregular formats of many different types of cameras. RAW files are what has been captured by the camera on the memory card. These images are larger than the commonly used image file formats like the jpeg, png, etc.

Can same photo editor provide different results after editing of RAW file and JPG or PNG formats?

Of course, since Raw file is what the camera has captured, you have downloaded a absolutely unedited image which has a lot of potential where editing is concerned. The reason why file is large because it has stored many more color shades than the .jpg format files, giving you a wider capacity of changing the photo according to your requirement. Here are some of the features of a RAW file.

1. Changing colors, contrast and white balance of your photo to a more wider range of specifications is possible in the RAW image file, thereby professional photo editors and photographers can bring out wonderful possibilities in an image.
2. RAW file is large, and not every computer or a phone is equipped to read your camera extension file, therefore, for using this for purpose of sharing and uploading, you will have to save edited RAW file in a more usable format.
3. When your camera or phone converts raw photo file into a jpg, the photo is already edited according to settings, some data loss is possible and there also come restrictions how much you can edit the file.
4. Even in difficult light conditions, pictures captured in raw photos have a higher degree of possibility of retrieving the captured image with editing that any other format.
5. Size of RAW photo file is large, takes longer time to be saved on the memory chip or disk, making it difficult for the camera to capture images at a very fast speed like in burst sequence.
6. Storage of RAW images will take much larger space on your device than the edited formats like the JPG.
7. Most photo editors allow editing of RAW photos for better output and capturing greater detail, so when you save photo in different widely used formats, you have greater picture quality, because when you edit picture with AI or manually and not automatically, possibility is high that your will store image better.

Most photo editors allow editing photos of most famous camera file formats, however, you can check details, if you are unsure if your camera photo format is supported.