Selecting solid colors with Eyedropper

Where is the option to have the Eyedropper only select solid colors and not multiple colors when sampling colors? I select the Eyedropper tool and do not see any options for this in the control panel.
I only have options for Sample Size, which layers to sample from, and whether to show sampling ring.
Thanks.

Not sure what you really mean by "solid color." A 1 px sampler will sample the solid color of that one pixel. If you increase the sampler size, it will start to average the sampled pixels. It will still be a solid color, jut a blend of the sampled pixel. So if you want just the exact color that you're sampling, you should go with the 1 px size.

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