Creating 'bleed' in Photoshop

[christod]

I need to add bleed out beyond my clipping path, so that when i 'trap' in ESKO there will actually be image for the trap to occur. Previously I have used a fine Photoshop plugin called AutoBleed, that seamlessly cloned image beyond your path. Alas, AutoBleed runs only under Classic mode.
Can anyone suggest an easy method for cloning image around a path?

To explain what i am doing: I have a CMYK plate in one image, that needs to trap to a spot colour background coming from another image. There is a clipping path on the plate. I need to add additional image of plate outside of my clipping path.

[Lukas Engqvist]

The CS5 content-aware fill should be a hit! Tried it on a couple of images and seems to be great extend canvas with relative sizeof the bleed select the new area with lasso and delete replacing with content aware.

[Stephen Marsh]

Recently disussed here:

Repeating outer Pixels


Best,

Stephen Marsh

[pacart]

Interesting, since you mentioned esko, why not let your rip do the trapping?