Taken at a high spatial resolution of 0.1 arcsec, Bright Points (BPs) are
found to coexist with faculae in images and the latter are often resolved as
adjacent striations. Understanding the properties of these different features
is fundamental to carrying out proxy magnetometry. To shed light on the
relationship between BPs and faculae, we studied them separately after the
application of a classification method, developed and described in a previous
paper) on active region images at various heliocentric angles. In this Paper,
we explore different aspects of the photometric properties of BPs and faculae,
namely their G-band contrast profiles, their peak contrast in G-band and
continuum, as well as morphological parameters. We find that: (1) the width of
the contrast profiles of the classified BPs and faculae are consistent with
studies of disk center BPs at and limb faculae, which indirectly confirms the
validity of our classification, (2) the profiles of limb faculae are limbward
skewed on average, while near disk center they exhibit both centerward and
limbward skewnesses due to the distribution of orientations of the faculae, (3)
the relation between the peak contrasts of BPs and faculae and their apparent
area discloses a trend reminiscent of magnetogram studies. The skewness of
facular profiles provides a novel constraint for 3D MHD models of faculae. As
suggested by the asymmetry and orientation of their contrast profiles, faculae
near disk center could be induced by inclined fields, while apparent BPs near
the limb seem to be in fact small faculae misidentified. The apparent area of
BPs and faculae could be possibly exploited for proxy magnetometry