If you have other textures you could change one to grayscale and reduce the brightness in a paint program. Or you could put a hsv node between the image map and the diffuse color and set the saturation to 0 and the value to .1. I used an mat pose called All map blue with those settings and got a nice black that still showed the details. 

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