Unable to pick color option? I am new to blender and trying to start off simple with minecraft animations. I am watching a video tutorial about how to change a character's "skin", it's easy if the options are enabled but it seems mine are not. I was wondering how do I enable these options?

This first image is what I see:



This second image is what I am trying to achieve but the options are not there:



I hope this is an easy fix, thank you in advance. I am using cycles render and the latest version of blender (downloaded blender yesterday).
You selected the wrong shader.



Click on Mix Shader and select Diffuse BSDF instead.