diff --git a/packages/stage-ui/src/composables/canvas-alpha-use-pixel.test.ts b/packages/stage-ui/src/composables/canvas-alpha-use-pixel.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..d3e321772
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/stage-ui/src/composables/canvas-alpha-use-pixel.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,42 @@
+import { describe, expect, it, vi } from 'vitest'
+import { ref } from 'vue'
+
+import { useCanvasPixelAtPoint } from './canvas-alpha'
+
+vi.mock('@vueuse/core', async () => {
+  const vue = await import('vue')
+
+  return {
+    toRef: (value: unknown) => vue.isRef(value) ? value : vue.ref(value),
+    unrefElement: (value: unknown) => vue.unref(value),
+    useElementBounding: () => ({
+      left: vue.ref(10),
+      top: vue.ref(20),
+      width: vue.ref(100),
+      height: vue.ref(100),
+    }),
+  }
+})
+
+describe('useCanvasPixelAtPoint', () => {
+  it('flips the Y coordinate before reading the WebGL pixel', () => {
+    const readPixels = vi.fn((_x, _y, _width, _height, _format, _type, data: Uint8Array) => {
+      data[3] = 255
+    })
+    const gl = {
+      drawingBufferWidth: 200,
+      drawingBufferHeight: 100,
+      RGBA: 0x1908,
+      UNSIGNED_BYTE: 0x1401,
+      readPixels,
+    }
+    const canvas = {
+      getContext: vi.fn(() => gl),
+    } as unknown as HTMLCanvasElement
+
+    const { pixel } = useCanvasPixelAtPoint(ref(canvas), ref(60), ref(30))
+
+    expect(Array.from(pixel.value)).toEqual([0, 0, 0, 255])
+    expect(readPixels).toHaveBeenCalledWith(100, 89, 1, 1, gl.RGBA, gl.UNSIGNED_BYTE, expect.any(Uint8Array))
+  })
+})
diff --git a/packages/stage-ui/src/composables/canvas-alpha.ts b/packages/stage-ui/src/composables/canvas-alpha.ts
index 5c57179dd..e92413344 100644
--- a/packages/stage-ui/src/composables/canvas-alpha.ts
+++ b/packages/stage-ui/src/composables/canvas-alpha.ts
@@ -132,7 +132,7 @@ export function useCanvasPixelAtPoint(
     const scaleY = gl.drawingBufferHeight / height.value
     const pixelX = Math.floor(xIn * scaleX)
     // Flip Y; subtract 1 to avoid top-edge off-by-one
-    const pixelY = Math.floor(gl.drawingBufferHeight + yIn * scaleY)
+    const pixelY = Math.floor(gl.drawingBufferHeight - 1 - yIn * scaleY)
 
     const data = new Uint8Array(4)
     try {