diff --git a/src/editor/FilePicker.ts b/src/editor/FilePicker.ts
index 80b0d173..3e776a15 100644
--- a/src/editor/FilePicker.ts
+++ b/src/editor/FilePicker.ts
@@ -272,6 +272,11 @@ export abstract class FilePicker<Item extends PickerItem> extends Popup {
     };
   }
 
+  /** The scrolled part of the dialog – what tells an entry in view from one past its edge (test hook). */
+  get listView(): ScrollContainer {
+    return this.scroll;
+  }
+
   override close(): void {
     super.close();
     if (current === this) current = null;
diff --git a/src/editor/debug/uiHooks.ts b/src/editor/debug/uiHooks.ts
index c9c2b126..84babe86 100644
--- a/src/editor/debug/uiHooks.ts
+++ b/src/editor/debug/uiHooks.ts
@@ -283,6 +283,10 @@ export function uiHooks({ app, state, editor }: HookContext) {
     /** The open image picker: what it offers, what is picked, and where a tile sits. */
     imagePicker: () => currentImagePicker()?.debugInfo() ?? null,
     imagePickerTile: (file: string) => currentImagePicker()?.tileGlobal(file) ?? null,
+    imagePickerRect: () => {
+      const picker = currentImagePicker();
+      return picker ? rectOf(picker.listView) : null;
+    },
     /** The same for the font picker, whose rows are the preview. */
     fontPicker: () => currentFontPicker()?.debugInfo() ?? null,
     fontPickerRow: (file: string) => currentFontPicker()?.rowGlobal(file) ?? null,
diff --git a/tools/e2e/12-textures.mjs b/tools/e2e/12-textures.mjs
index d0fdb1e6..cb06c67a 100644
--- a/tools/e2e/12-textures.mjs
+++ b/tools/e2e/12-textures.mjs
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 import { colourDistance } from '../lib/harness.mjs';
+import { inView } from './lib/scaffold.mjs';
 
 /**
  * Uploading a picture and wearing it. Runs last because it adds an asset and repaints the
@@ -363,7 +364,11 @@ export async function textures(t) {
   );
   check('building the tiles draws no complaint from Pixi', tileComplaints.length === 0, tileComplaints);
 
-  const tile = await json(`__gm.imagePickerTile(${JSON.stringify(spare)})`);
+  // Scrolled into view first: the server holds every picture ever uploaded, so on a long-lived
+  // one the spare's tile sits below the dialog's fold, where a click lands on nothing.
+  const tileOf = (file) =>
+    inView(t, '__gm.imagePickerRect()', `__gm.imagePickerTile(${JSON.stringify(file)})`);
+  const tile = await tileOf(spare);
   await click(tile.x, tile.y);
   check(
     'clicking a tile picks that image',
@@ -424,7 +429,7 @@ export async function textures(t) {
     (reopened?.used ?? []).includes(spare),
     JSON.stringify(reopened?.used),
   );
-  const sameTile = await json(`__gm.imagePickerTile(${JSON.stringify(spare)})`);
+  const sameTile = await tileOf(spare);
   await doubleClick(sameTile.x, sameTile.y);
   await sleep(600);
   const afterSecondPick = await json(