Creating a Grid
Now you'll give the project some added pizzazz by creating a gridded background. Creating the grid is easy, thanks to the Grid effect, but making the black area around the Saleen car transparent is tricky. You'll start by creating a new composition to contain the work you've done so far, the grid, and the remaining elements of this project, including the company logo and slogans:
Removing the car's black background
The black area that surrounds the car currently covers the underlying areas of the grid and needs to be removed. The first solution that might come to your mind is to use the Color Key effect, which hides all pixels that contain a range of colors that you specify. Unfortunately, the black background contains a wide range of dark hues that also appear within the car; as a result, portions of the car would become transparent, and the grid would appear through the car's frame.You could use the Inner/Outer Key effect and a new mask drawn around the car to restrict the layer's visibility to the car, but that would require you to animate the mask. That effect provides the best results but requires the most time and patience.Instead, you'll create a duplicate layer and use blending modes to quickly hide the car's black background: