  Observations of flare emissions in the optical continuum are very rare.
Therefore, the analysis of such observations is useful and may contribute to
our understanding of the flaring chromosphere and photosphere. We study the
white light continuum emission observed during the X6.9 flare which occurred on
August 09, 2011. This emission comes not only from the flare ribbons but also
from the nearby plage area. The main aim of this work is to disentangle the
flare and plage (facula) emission. We analyzed the spatial, spectral and
temporal evolution of the flare and plage properties by analyzing
multi-wavelength observations. We study the morphological correlation of the
whitelight continuum emission observed with different instruments. We found
that some active region areas which produce the continuum emission correspond
rather to plages than to the flare kernels. We showed that in some cases the
continuum emission from the WL flare kernels is very similar to the continuum
emission of faculae.
