Transparency Mesh that behaves like a mask

thanks for the response Nasko. The text is just one issue the other issue is the background. I dont want the background to appear white where the mesh transparency is less. I only want the mesh to affect the grid like design. If i fill the mesh with the same color as the background and apply transparency, it changes the color of the grid too.

If you want to make the grid transparent with that eliptical mesh - see the file in the link here:
https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=B48A027584F1F09E!579&authkey=!AJueY8KAwWmEKzU&ithint=file%2ccdr

I made a black rectangle with opposite mesh - the center is not transparent. Then I put it like powerclipped object in empty shape like your grid, so actually you can see the background.

If you extract the powerclip will see what I mean.

PS By the way if you want to change the blending between black and the background then after making the black mesh with transparency put a uniform transparency with the transparency tool onto that object, set the transperancy to 0 and make it MULTIPLY!

i saw the file.. but its going to take me some time to understand it. thank you so much Nasko, this was very useful.

Probably It's a little bit confusing at first but when you catch the idea everything is very simple. The idea is that you need a container in a shape you need - in that case its your grid. I first combined the lines into one object, and after that I made them object /convert outline to object - Ctrl+Shift+Q/. So now with that container we need to make it "transperent" with your eliptical mesh. When you do that in Photoshop it's the same - you have a mask /the shape of the grid/, a fill of that mask - image or color or whatever and transparency. So we have already the shape of the mask and now we have to fill it with color and transperancy. Thats why I made the mesh not white but in color you want - black, and made it with eliptical transperancy with mesh. After that I just put it in the grid container. The container needs no fill so only the mesh actually gives it a color and transparancy. The container /power clip shape/ is only to make it the grid you want. So now we can see trough the mesh and it has a shape of the grid. At any time you can go into power clip or extract it and to change the color or the tranperancy.

I use this tecnique for prepress too. It's very useful when you need a vector shape of effect or bitmap /without pixelisation of the edges/, but if you are interested in that too I can explain it.

The power of the power clip is VERY BIG! Just think when you work and you will find that Corel is far more than you think ;)