How to use a clipping mask layer to a multiple base layers?

Is it possible to use one layer as a clipping mask to a 5 different bottom layers.
     What I'm trying to do is apply an adjustment layer to certain layers only. Is that possible?
-Zeropan

Zpan wrote:
Is it possible to use one layer as a clipping mask to a 5 different bottom layers.
not that I would know, but what you can do instead is group those 5 layers (CTRL+G), add the adjustment layer as the topmost layer in the group and set the group's blending mode to "normal". The adustment layer is then only applied to the layers within the same group.

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