Eye dropper / Selecting color from within a group

[artdepot]

I am having an issue using the Eye Dropper tool, when editing inside a group. When entering a group, Illustrator fades the other items not within the current group. This is handy for visualization purposes, but it should be only that. Why then does the Eye Dropper tool pick the faded color when selecting other objects outside of the current group? It should understand that the faded color is only faded to aid the user. The eye dropper should pick the "actual" color still outside of the group. I am sure that's the way it used to work and it changed somewhere along the way. This is a bug, right? I'm on version 28.7.1

[Doug A Roberts]

Seems correct for me on 28.7.1. Can you share exactly what you are doing step by step and what kind of objects you are selecting from?

[artdepot]

Thanks for checking. I just double click on a grouped vector object to edit, such as the Wine logo here that I auto-traced. Once inside, the eye dropper seems to always select the faded screen color on the top original raster image. It works correctly on non-grouped items, since there is no screen fading involved. I've shown both on the screenshot to compare. It issue seems to only happen when sampling raster images.

[Doug A Roberts]

Unfortunately this is just how the eyedropper works on raster images -- they're a black box to Illustrator, so eyedropper samples are taken from on-screen values.

[PrepressPro1]

Double click the eyedropper tool and get the eyedropper options. This is how you set the desired paramiters for the eyedropper tool. 

[Doug A Roberts]

How do those options affect getting colours from raster images while in isolation mode?